The Pine At Timber-line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCDEAFGHHHIBJKHL M| What has bent you | A |
| Warped and twisted you | A |
| Torn and crippled you | A |
| What has embittered you | A |
| O lonely tree | B |
| You search the rocks for a footing | C |
| dragging scrawny roots | D |
| You bare your thin breast to the storms | E |
| and fling out wild arms behind you | A |
| You throw back your witch like head | F |
| with wisps of hair stringing the wind | G |
| You fight with the snows | H |
| You rail and shriek at the tempests | H |
| Old before your time you challenge the cold stars | H |
| Be still be satisfied | I |
| Stand straight like your brothers in the valley | B |
| The soft green valley of summer down below | J |
| Why front the endless winter of the peak | K |
| Why seize the lightning in your riven hands | H |
| Why cut the driven wind and shriek aloud | L |
| Why tarry here | M |
Harriet Monroe
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