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The Palm And The Pine

Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)

From the German of Heine.

In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
 Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps:  around it snows have thrown
 A covering of white.

It dreams forever of a Palm
 That, far i' the Morning-land,
Stands silent in a most sad calm
 Midst of the burning sand.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 274
Words 53
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4
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Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier was a poet, writer, composer, critic, professor of literature at Johns Hopkins and first flutist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltiimore. He wrote the Centennial cantata for the opening ceremony of the 1876 Centennial celebration in Philadelphia. more…

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