CLASS 10
THE TREES
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Question
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ABBA
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ABAB
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ABCD
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AABB
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Detailed explanation-1: -This is a three-stanza poem with an ABBA rhyme scheme and a confused tone that shifts through a series of ideas from the poem’s beginning to its end.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem’s rhyme scheme is rhyming couplets rendered aa bb cc dd ee aa.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Trees” has six stanzas of rhymed couplets. In descriptions of poetry, rhyming lines are assigned matching letters. The first and last stanzas of “Trees” have identical rhymes, while the middle ones are different. Therefore, the specific rhyme pattern is AA BB CC DD EE AA.
Detailed explanation-4: -Their greenness is a kind of grief. In this stanza, Larkin seemingly hints at the pointlessness of life, describing the emergence of burgeoning trees as something cheerful yet melancholic in the same instance.
Detailed explanation-5: -Simile. The speaker uses a simile to compare the newly budding trees to “something almost being said"-they’re like a word on the tip of the tongue. This suggests that the leaves haven’t yet fully budded, infusing the poem’s opening with a sense of anticipation.