Above The Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPCQRS TUV| Why should I tarry here to be but one | A |
| To eke out doubt and suffer with the rest | B |
| Why should I labor to become a name | C |
| And vaunt as did Ulysses to his mates | D |
| I am a part of all that I have met | E |
| A wily seeker to suffice myself | F |
| As when the oak's young leaves push off the old | G |
| So from this tree of life man drops away | H |
| And all the boughs are peopled quick by spring | I |
| Above the furrows of forgotten graves | J |
| The one we thought had made the nation's creed | K |
| Whose death would rive us like a thunderbolt | L |
| Dropped down a sudden rustling in the leaves | M |
| A knowledge of the gap and that was all | N |
| The robin flitting on his frozen mound | O |
| Is more than he Whoever dies gives up | P |
| Unfinished work which others tempted claim | C |
| And carry on I would go free and change | Q |
| Into a star above the multitude | R |
| To shine afar and penetrate where those | S |
| Who in the darkling boughs are prisoned close | T |
| But when they catch my rays will borrow light | U |
| Believing it their own and it will serve | V |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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