The Upas Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL DMDM DDDD NONO| Deep in the desert's misery | A |
| far in the fury of the sand | B |
| there stands the awesome Upas Tree | A |
| lone watchman of a lifeless land | B |
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| The wilderness a world of thirst | C |
| in wrath engendered it and filled | D |
| its every root every accursed | D |
| grey leafstalk with a sap that killed | D |
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| Dissolving in the midday sun | E |
| the poison oozes through its bark | F |
| and freezing when the day is done | E |
| gleams thick and gem like in the dark | F |
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| No bird flies near no tiger creeps | G |
| alone the whirlwind wild and black | H |
| assails the tree of death and sweeps | G |
| away with death upon its back | H |
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| And though some roving cloud may stain | I |
| with glancing drops those leaden leaves | J |
| the dripping of a poisoned rain | I |
| is all the burning sand receives | J |
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| But man sent man with one proud look | K |
| towards the tree and he was gone | L |
| the humble one and there he took | K |
| the poison and returned at dawn | L |
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| He brought the deadly gum with it | D |
| he brought some leaves a withered bough | M |
| while rivulets of icy sweat | D |
| ran slowly down his livid brow | M |
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| He came he fell upon a mat | D |
| and reaping a poor slave's reward | D |
| died near the painted hut where sat | D |
| his now unconquerable lord | D |
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| The king he soaked his arrows true | N |
| in poison and beyond the plains | O |
| dispatched those messengers and slew | N |
| his neighbors in their own domains | O |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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