Poet G. K. Chesterton

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The Song Of The Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCBDEFEGGGE GBGGGBHEIEGGGE GEJKKLMNGNGGGN

The Druids waved their golden knivesA
And danced around the OakB
When they had sacrificed a manC
But though the learned search and scanC
No single modern person canC
Entirely see the jokeB
But though they cut the throats of menD
They cut not down the treeE
And from the blood the saplings springF
Of oak woods yet to beE
But Ivywood Lord IvywoodG
He rots the tree as ivy wouldG
He clings and crawls as ivy wouldG
About the sacred treeE
-
King Charles he fled from Worcester fightG
And hid him in the OakB
In convent schools no man of tactG
Would trace and praise his every actG
Or argue that he was in factG
A strict and sainted blokeB
But not by him the sacred woodsH
Have lost their fancies freeE
And though he was extremely bigI
He did not break the treeE
But Ivywood Lord IvywoodG
He breaks the tree as ivy wouldG
And eats the woods as ivy wouldG
Between us and the seaE
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Great Collingwood walked down the gladeG
And flung the acorns freeE
That oaks might still be in the groveJ
As oaken as the beams aboveK
When the great Lover sailors loveK
Was kissed by Death at aeaL
But though for him the oak trees fellM
To build the oaken shipsN
The woodman worshipped what he smoteG
And honoured even the chipsN
But Ivywood Lord IvywoodG
He hates the tree as ivy wouldG
As the dragon of the ivy wouldG
That has us in his gripsN

G. K. Chesterton



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