Friday, January 3, 2003

Leaves Compared With Flowers Comments

Rating: 3.1

A tree's leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bar, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.
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Robert Frost
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Zehla Torres 14 May 2021

This poem is very exotic, im from Argentina and very much enjoyed this poem where we dont have leaves or flowers.

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Keille 19 March 2018

What is the Poetic Foot of this poem?

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Brian Jani 13 July 2014

leaves compared with flowers, this is very creative idea for a poem.well done

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* Sunprincess * 28 October 2012

wow..i love the leaves in the month of october.. the many different colours is so magical and a joy to behold..fabulous.. :)

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Billy Davey 28 April 2012

There is a typo on line 17 (last stanza) : Bar should be bark.

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