Just reading the title the reader understands the poem will be about nature. The structure of the poem is made up of three quatrains. The fist quatrain introduces the topic of the poem and there are described the leaves that are coming to live again in spring. The second quatrain expresses a poet's doubt, in fact the poet asks himself if only humans die. He wants to know if only humans die while trees born again, but next he also provide an answer where he say that the trees grow old too and that the age of trees are written in rings of grain. The last quatrain concludes the poem. Here the poet explains how the trees seem to be always fresh and full, even if they die every year.

The poet used the progressive aspect to create the effect of flow of time. In addition, there are a lot of E sounds and short syllable that ease in the rhythm. The rhyme pattern is ABBA.

There are three different semantic fields. The first is the semantic field of life where the reader can put the words "are coming up", "buds", "greenness" and "full grown". The second semantic field is the death where the reader can put "they die to" and "grief" and finally there is the semantic field of revival with the words "are born again" and "looking new". In the last line, there is a repetition of the word afresh and the reader found this sound in the first line of the last quatrain. This sound conveys the freshness.

The syntax is regular in fact we have affirmative sentences and only one question that urge a doubt.