The Fallen Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ KHKHLL MNMNOO PQPQRR| I passed along a mountain road | A |
| Which led me through a wooded glen | B |
| Remote from dwelling or abode | A |
| And ordinary haunts of men | B |
| And wearied from the dust and heat | C |
| Beneath a tree I found a seat | C |
| - | |
| The tree a tall majestic spruce | D |
| Which had perhaps for centuries | E |
| Withstood without a moment's truce | D |
| The wing ed warfare of the breeze | E |
| A monarch of the solitude | F |
| Which well might grace the noblest wood | G |
| - | |
| Beneath its cool and welcome shade | H |
| Protected from the noontide rays | I |
| The birds amid its branches played | H |
| And caroled forth their twittering praise | I |
| A squirrel perched upon a limb | J |
| And chattered with loquacious vim | J |
| - | |
| E'er yet that selfsame week had sped | K |
| On my return I sought its shade | H |
| But where it reared its form instead | K |
| A fallen monarch I surveyed | H |
| Prostrate and broken on the ground | L |
| Nor longer cast its shade around | L |
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| Uprooted and disheveled there | M |
| The monarch of the forest lay | N |
| As if in desolate despair | M |
| Its last resistance fell away | N |
| And overwhelmed in evil hour | O |
| Went down before the tempest's power | O |
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| Such are the final works of fate | P |
| The birds to other branches flew | Q |
| And man whatever his estate | P |
| Must face that same mutation too | Q |
| To day I stand erect and tall | R |
| The morrow may record my fall | R |
Alfred Castner King
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