Apostrophe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLLMM NNOOPPQQRRGSTTUAVV WWXYZZA2A2| TO AN OLD TREE | A |
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| WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North | B |
| Like rugged indigent unheeded worth | C |
| Lo Vegetation's guardian hands emboss | D |
| Each giant limb with fronds of studded moss | D |
| That clothes the bark in many a fringed fold | E |
| Begemm'd with scarlet shields and cups of gold | E |
| Which to the wildest winds their webs oppose | F |
| And mock the arrowy sleet or weltering snows | F |
| But to the warmer West the woodbine fair | G |
| With tassels that perfumed the summer air | G |
| The mantling clematis whose feathery bowers | H |
| Waved in festoons with nightshade's purple flowers | H |
| The silver weed whose corded fillets wove | I |
| Round thy pale rind even as deceitful love | J |
| Of mercenary beauty would engage | K |
| The dotard fondness of decrepit age | K |
| All these that during summer's halcyon days | L |
| With their green canopies conceal'd thy sprays | L |
| Are gone for ever or disfigured trail | M |
| Their sallow relicts in the autumnal gale | M |
| Or o'er thy roots in faded fragments toss'd | N |
| But tell of happier hours and sweetness lost | N |
| Thus in Fate's trying hour when furious storms | O |
| Strip social life of Pleasure's fragile forms | O |
| And awful Justice as his rightful prey | P |
| Tears Luxury's silk and jewel'd robe away | P |
| While reads Adversity her lesson stern | Q |
| And Fortune's minions tremble as they learn | Q |
| The crowds around her gilded car that hung | R |
| Bent the lithe knee and troul'd the honey'd tongue | R |
| Desponding fall or fly in pale despair | G |
| And Scorn alone remembers that they were | S |
| Not so Integrity unchanged he lives | T |
| In the rude armour conscious Honour gives | T |
| And dares with hardy front the troubled sky | U |
| In Honesty's uninjured panoply | A |
| Ne'er on Prosperity's enfeebling bed | V |
| Or rosy pillows he reposed his head | V |
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| But given to useful arts his ardent mind | W |
| Has sought the general welfare of mankind | W |
| To mitigate their ills his greatest bliss | X |
| While studying them has taught him what he is | Y |
| He when the human tempest rages worst | Z |
| And the earth shudders as the thunders burst | Z |
| Firm as thy northern branch is rooted fast | A2 |
| And if he can't avert endures the blast | A2 |
Charlotte Smith
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