The Tree's Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIG JBBJ KLLK MNNM OPPO QRRQ| Alas 'tis cold and dark | A |
| The wind all night hath sung a wintry tune | B |
| Hail from black clouds that swallowed up the moon | B |
| Beat beat against my bark | A |
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| Oh why delays the spring | C |
| Not yet the sap moves in my frozen veins | D |
| Through all my stiffened roots creep numbing pains | D |
| That I can hardly cling | C |
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| The sun shone yester morn | E |
| I felt the glow down every fibre float | F |
| And thought I heard a thrush's piping note | F |
| Of dim dream gladness born | E |
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| Then on the salt gale driven | G |
| The streaming cloud hissed through my outstretched arms | H |
| Tossed me about in slanting snowy swarms | I |
| And blotted out the heaven | G |
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| All night I brood and choose | J |
| Among past joys Oh for the breath of June | B |
| The feathery light flakes quavering from the moon | B |
| The slow baptizing dews | J |
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| Oh the joy frantic birds | K |
| They are the tongues of us mute longing trees | L |
| Aha the billowy odours and the bees | L |
| That browse like scattered herds | K |
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| The comfort whispering showers | M |
| That thrill with gratefulness my youngest shoot | N |
| The children playing round my deep sunk root | N |
| Green caved from burning hours | M |
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| See see the heartless dawn | O |
| With naked chilly arms latticed across | P |
| Another weary day of moaning loss | P |
| On the thin shadowed lawn | O |
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| But icy winter's past | Q |
| Yea climbing suns persuade the relenting wind | R |
| I will endure with steadfast patient mind | R |
| My leaves will come at last | Q |
George Macdonald
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