 " Trees " is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer . Written in February 1913 , it was first published in Poetry : A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer 's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems . The poem , in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse , describes what Kilmer perceives as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature . 
 " Trees " <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer . Written in February 1913 , it was first published in Poetry : A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>1914 collection Trees and Other Poems . The poem , in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse , <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>describes</mark></a> what Kilmer <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>perceives</mark></a> as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature . 
 Trees  a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer . Written in February 1913 , it was first published in Poetry : A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer  1914 collection Trees and Other Poems . The poem , in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse , describe wht Kilmer perceive as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate da beauty achieved by nature .