The Charter Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHJI KLKKL MNMMN OPOOQ FRFFR| I seem to see the old tree stand | A |
| Its sturdy giant form | B |
| A spectacle remembered and | C |
| A pilgrim shrine for all the land | A |
| Before it met the storm | B |
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| Unnumbered gales the tree defied | D |
| It towered like a king | E |
| Above his courtiers reaching wide | D |
| And sheltering scions at its side | D |
| As with protecting wing | E |
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| Revered as one among the trees | F |
| To mark the seasons born | G |
| To watchful aborigines | F |
| It told by leafy indices | F |
| The time of planting corn | G |
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| The landmark of the past is gone | H |
| Its site is overgrown | I |
| A mansion overlooks the lawn | H |
| Where history is traced upon | J |
| A parapet of stone | I |
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| Shall e'er Connecticut forget | K |
| What unto it we owe | L |
| How Wadsworth coped with Andros' threat | K |
| And tyranny in council met | K |
| Outwitted years ago | L |
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| Aye but it rouses loyal spunk | M |
| To think of that old tree | N |
| Its stately stem its spacious trunk | M |
| By Nature robbed of pith and punk | M |
| To guard our liberty | N |
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| But of the oak long perished why | O |
| Is earth forever full | P |
| For like the loaf and fish supply | O |
| Its stock of fiber tough and dry | O |
| Seems inexhaustible | Q |
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| Rare souvenirs the stranger sees | F |
| Who never sees a joke | R |
| And innocently dreams that these | F |
| From knotty gnarly scraggy trees | F |
| Were once the Charter Oak | R |
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