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The Talking Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Once more the gate behind me falls	A
Once more before my face	B
I see the moulder'd Abbey walls	A
That stand within the chace	B
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Beyond the lodge the city lies	C
Beneath its drift of smoke	D
And ah with what delighted eyes	C
I turn to yonder oak	D
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For when my passion first began	E
Ere that which in me burn'd	F
The love that makes me thrice a man	E
Could hope itself return'd	F
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To yonder oak within the field	G
I spoke without restraint	H
And with a larger faith appeal'd	G
Than Papist unto Saint	H
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For oft I talk'd with him apart	I
And told him of my choice	J
Until he plagiarized a heart	I
And answer'd with a voice	J
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Tho' what he whisper'd under Heaven	K
None else could understand	L
I found him garrulously given	K
A babbler in the land	L
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But since I heard him make reply	M
Is many a weary hour	N
'Twere well to question him and try	M
If yet he keeps the power	N
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Hail hidden to the knees in fern	O
Broad Oak of Sumner chace	B
Whose topmost branches can discern	O
The roofs of Sumner place	B
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Say thou whereon I carved her name	P
If ever maid or spouse	Q
As fair as my Olivia came	P
To rest beneath thy boughs	R
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O Walter I have shelter'd here	S
Whatever maiden grace	B
The good old Summers year by year	T
Made ripe in Sumner chace	B
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Old Summers when the monk was fat	U
And issuing shorn and sleek	V
Would twist his girdle tight and pat	U
The girls upon the cheek	V
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Ere yet in scorn of Peter's pence	W
And number'd bead and shrift	X
Bluff Harry broke into the spence	W
And turn'd the cowls adrift	X
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And I have seen some score of those	Y
Fresh faces that would thrive	Z
When his man minded offset rose	Y
To chase the deer at five	Z
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And all that from the town would stroll	A2
Till that wild wind made work	B2
In which the gloomy brewer's soul	A2
Went by me like a stork	C2
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The slight she slips of royal blood	D2
And others passing praise	E2
Straight laced but all too full in bud	D2
For puritanic stays	E2
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And I have shadow'd many a group	F2
Of beauties that were born	G2
In teacup times of hood and hoop	F2
Or while the patch was worn	G2
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And leg and arm with love knots gay	H2
About me leap'd and laugh'd	I2
The modish Cupid of the day	H2
And shrill'd his tinsel shaft	I2
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I swear and else may insects prick	J2
Each leaf into a gall	K2
This girl for whom your heart is sick	J2
Is three times worth them all	K2
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For those and theirs by Nature's law	L2
Have faded long ago	M2
But in these latter springs I saw	L2
Your own Olivia blow	M2
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From when she gamboll'd on the greens	N2
A baby germ to when	O2
The maiden blossoms of her teens	N2
Could number five from ten	O2
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I swear by leaf and wind and rain	P2
And hear me with thine ears	Q2
That tho' I circle in the grain	P2
Five hundred rings of years	Q2
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Yet since I first could cast a shade	R2
Did never creature pass	S2
So slightly musically made	R2
So light upon the grass	S2
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For as to fairies that will flit	T2
To make the greensward fresh	U2
I hold them exquisitely knit	T2
But far too spare of flesh	U2
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Oh hide thy knotted knees in fern	O
And overlook the chace	B
And from thy topmost branch discern	O
The roofs of Sumner place	B
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But thou whereon I carved her name	P
That oft hast heard my vows	R
Declare when last Olivia came	P
To sport beneath thy boughs	R
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O yesterday you know the fair	V2
Was holden at the town	W2
Her father left his good arm chair	V2
And rode his hunter down	W2
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And with him Albert came on his	X2
I look'd at him with joy	Y2
As cowslip unto oxlip is	X2
So seems she to the boy	Y2
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An hour had past and sitting straight	Z2
Within the low wheel'd chaise	E2
Her mother trundled to the gate	Z2
Behind the dappled grays	E2
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But as for her she stay'd at home	A3
And on the roof she went	B3
And down the way you use to come	C3
She look'd with discontent	B3
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She left the novel half uncut	D3
Upon the rosewood shelf	E3
She left the new piano shut	D3
She could not please herseif	E3
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Then ran she gamesome as the colt	F3
And livelier than a lark	G3
She sent her voice thro' all the holt	F3
Before her and the park	G3
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A light wind chased her on the wing	H3
And in the chase grew wild	I3
As close as might be would he cling	H3
About the darling child	I3
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But light as any wind that blows	Y
So fleetly did she stir	N
The flower she touch'd on dipt and rose	Y
And turn'd to look at her	N
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And here she came and round me play'd	R2
And sang to me the whole	A2
Of those three stanzas that you made	R2
About my giant bole '	-
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And in a fit of frolic mirth	J3
She strove to span my waist	K3
Alas I was so broad of girth	J3
I could not be embraced	K3
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I wish'd myself the fair young beech	L3
That here beside me stands	M3
That round me clasping each in each	L3
She might have lock'd her hands	M3
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Yet seem'd the pressure thrice as sweet	N3
As woodbine's fragile hold	O3
Or when I feel about my feet	N3
The berried briony fold	O3
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O muffle round thy knees with fern	O
And shadow Sumner chace	B
Long may thy topmost branch discern	O
The roofs of Sumner place	B
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But tell me did she read the name	P
I carved with many vows	R
When last with throbbing heart I came	P
To rest beneath thy boughs	R
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O yes she wander'd round and round	P3
These knotted knees of mine	Q3
And found and kiss'd the name she found	P3
And sweetly murmur'd thine	Q3
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A teardrop trembled from its source	R3
And down my surface crept	S3
My sense of touch is something coarse	R3
But I believe she wept	S3
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Then flush'd her cheek with rosy light	T3
She glanced across the plain	P2
But not a creature was in sight	T3
She kiss'd me once again	O2
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Her kisses were so close and kind	U3
That trust me on my word	V3
Hard wood I am and wrinkled rind	U3
But yet my sap was stirr'd	V3
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And even into my inmost ring	H3
A pleasure I discern'd	F
Like those blind motions of the Spring	H3
That show the year is turn'd	F
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Thrice happy he that may caress	W3
The ringlet's waving balm	X3
The cushions of whose touch may press	W3
The maiden's tender palm	X3
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I rooted here among the groves	Y3
But languidly adjust	Z3
My vapid vegetable loves	A4
With anthers and with dust	Z3
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For ah my friend the days were brief	E3
Whereof the poets talk	B4
When that which breathes within the leaf	E3
Could slip its bark and walk	B4
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But could I as in times foregone	C4
From spray and branch and stem	D4
Have suck'd and gather'd into one	K
The life that spreads in them	D4
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She had not found me so remiss	E4
But lightly issuing thro'	N
I would have paid her kiss for kiss	E4
With usury thereto	Z3
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O flourish high with leafy towers	F4
And overlook the lea	G4
Pursue thy loves among the bowers	F4
But leave thou mine to me	G4
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O flourish hidden deep in fern	O
Old oak I love thee well	H4
A thousand thanks for what I learn	O
And what remains to tell	H4
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Tis little more the day was warm	I4
At last tired out with play	H2
She sank her head upon her arm	J4
And at my feet she lay	H2
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Her eyelids dropp'd their silken eaves	K4
I breathed upon her eyes	C
Thro' all the summer of my leaves	K4
A welcome mix'd with sighs	C
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I took the swarming sound of life	E3
The music from the town	W2
The murmurs of the drum and fife	E3
And lull'd them in my own	L4
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Sometimes I let a sunbeam slip	M4
To light her shaded eye	M
A second flutter'd round her lip	M4
Like a	N4