The sing-song-like rhyme of these lines helps paint a picture of the perfect springtime scene the speaker is thinking of. The lines follow a simple rhyme scheme of AABBCC, changing end sounds from stanza to stanza. Housman is a twelve-line poem that is contained within one stanza of text. With this monotonous idea, he moves on and waits to see the cherry blossoms hung with the metaphorical “snow”.
According to him, life is too short to drink beauty to the lees. Often when he passes through the woodland in spring, the flower reminds him how much time he has to capture this momentary beauty of nature. When cherry blossoms, it makes the speaker think about how short his life is to enjoy such scenic beauty.
The title of the poem, ‘Loveliest of Trees’ refers to the cherry trees that appear to the speaker as the most pleasant to look at. The moral of the story is that one should not waste their life on things that do not please them. The tree is a symbol for the wider natural world and all beautiful, fulfilling things. Time is limited, therefore, the speaker declares, he needs to spend all the time he can while he’s still alive looking at these trees he loves. The poem details the speaker’s age, the fact that he loves looking at nature, and the unavoidable truth of human existence. Housman is a lovely, rhyming poem that describes the joy a speaker takes from blooming cherry blossom trees.
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