The Old Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEF GGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOLL| Here have I stood the pride of the park | A |
| In winter with snow on my frozen bark | A |
| In spring 'mong the flowers that smiling she spread | B |
| And among my own leaves when summer was fled | B |
| Three hundred years my top I have rais'd | C |
| Three hundred years I have sadly gaz'd | C |
| O'er Nature's wide extended scene | D |
| O'er rushing rivers and meadows green | D |
| For though I was always willing to rove | E |
| I never could yet my firm foot move | F |
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| They fell'd my brother who stood by my side | G |
| And flung out his arms so wide so wide | G |
| How envy I him for how blest is he | H |
| As the keel of a vessel he sails so free | H |
| Around the whole of the monstrous earth | I |
| But I am still in the place of my birth | I |
| I once was too haughty by far to complain | J |
| But am become feeble through age and pain | J |
| And therefore I often give vent to my woes | K |
| When through my branches the wild wind blows | K |
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| A night like this so calm and clear | L |
| I have not seen for many a year | L |
| The milk white doe and her tender fawn | M |
| Are skipping about on the moonlight lawn | M |
| And there on the verge of my time worn root | N |
| Two lovers are seated and both are mute | N |
| Her arm encircles his youthful neck | O |
| For none are present their love to check | O |
| This night would almost my sad heart cheer | L |
| Had I one hope or one single fear | L |
George Borrow
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