Old Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHFHF| Old trees old trees in your mystic gloom | A |
| There's many a warrior laid | B |
| And many a nameless and lonely tomb | A |
| Is sheltered beneath your shade | B |
| Old trees old trees without pomp or prayer | C |
| We buried the brave and the true | D |
| We fired a volley and left them there | C |
| To rest old trees with you | D |
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| Old trees old trees keep watch and ward | E |
| Over each grass grown bed | F |
| 'Tis a glory old trees to stand as guard | G |
| Over the Southern dead | F |
| Old trees old trees we shall pass away | H |
| Like the leaves you yearly shed | F |
| But ye lone sentinels still must stay | H |
| Old trees to guard our dead | F |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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