The Voice Of The Swamp Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEG HIHI EJEJ EKEK LHLH MNMN OPOP| Who hath lain him underneath | A |
| A lone oak by a lonely stream | B |
| He hath heard an utterance breathe | C |
| Sadder than all else may seen | D |
| Up in its dusk boughs out tressing | E |
| Like the hair of a giant s head | F |
| Mournful things beyond our guessing | E |
| Day and night are uttered | G |
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| Even when the waveless air | H |
| May only stir the lightest leaf | I |
| A lowly voice keeps moaning there | H |
| Wordless oracles of grief | I |
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| But when nightly blasts are roaming | E |
| Lowly is that voice no more | J |
| From the streaming branches coming | E |
| Elfin shrieks are heard to pour | J |
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| While between the blast on passing | E |
| And the blast that comes as oft | K |
| Mid those boughs dark intermassing | E |
| One long low wail pines aloft | K |
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| Till the listener surely deems | L |
| That some weird spirit of the air | H |
| Hath made those boughs the lute of themes | L |
| Wilder darker than despair | H |
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| Darker than a woe whose morrow | M |
| Must be travelling to an end | N |
| Wilder than the wildest sorrow | M |
| That in death hath still a friend | N |
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| Some lonely spirit that hath dwelt | O |
| For ages in one lonely tree | P |
| Some weary spirit that hath felt | O |
| The burthen of eternity | P |
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