The Chestnut Glade
The chestnut tree within the glade,
One half-a-mile past Windy Lea,
There in the cool, refreshing shade.
A friend, indeed, in her I made,
She stood upright, aloft was she ~
The chestnut tree within the glade.
Out in the breeze she gently swayed,
To-ing, fro-ing, so wildly free
There in the cool, refreshing shade.
Her spreading, leafy, boughs cascade,
She, open limbed to welcome me;
The chestnut tree within the glade.
Round and about, where squirrels played
And romped a happy, joyful spree
There in the cool, refreshing shade.
Yet youthful brightness starts to fade,
My eyes grow old, I barely see
The chestnut tree within the glade
There in the cool, refreshing shade.
About this poem
A Victorian (8 syllable) villanelle from 1978
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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 03, 2021
Modified by AlanSJeeves on July 03, 2021
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AbA abA abA abA abA abAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
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