The Grave And The Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM DADA NFNF| Of double depth they made her grave | A |
| And covered it with massive stone | B |
| And there where silvery birches wave | A |
| They left her sleeping all alone | B |
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| These words were chiselled on her tomb | C |
| This grave bought for eternity | D |
| Even to and through the day of doom | C |
| And ever shall unopened be | D |
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| For years the passing stranger saw | E |
| The epitaph of Caroline | F |
| And wondered with a shuddering awe | G |
| That it could dare the wrath divine | F |
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| Time is of God He does not need | H |
| To work his purpose in an hour | I |
| Years came and went and then a seed | H |
| Borne downwards by a summer shower | I |
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| Fell gently on the scanty earth | J |
| Among the heaped up stones that lay | K |
| And soon a tiny birch had birth | J |
| And grew in stature day by day | K |
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| The sun the shower the passing wind | L |
| All helped the youthful tree to grow | M |
| Its little roots ran far to find | L |
| Subsistence in the depths below | M |
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| Years passed until at last the tree | D |
| Sundered the stones and made the grave | A |
| Yawn wide that hoped eternally | D |
| The ravages of Time to brave | A |
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| Vain was the exercise of skill | N |
| To seal the grave of Caroline | F |
| And vain is every human will | N |
| That strives to break the law divine | F |
Arthur Weir
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