The Fir-tree And The Brook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC DEDECCCC FGFGCCCC HIHICCCI JKJKCCCK| The Fir Tree looked on stars but loved the Brook | A |
| quot O silver voiced if thou wouldst wait | B |
| My love can bravely woo quot All smiles forsook | A |
| The brook's white face quot Too late | B |
| Too late I go to wed the sea | C |
| I know not if my love would curse or bless thee | C |
| I may not dare not tarry to caress thee | C |
| Oh do not follow me | C |
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| The Fir Tree moaned and moaned till spring | D |
| Then laughed in manic joy to feel | E |
| Early one day the woodsmen of the King | D |
| Sign him with a sign of burning steel | E |
| The first to fall quot Now flee | C |
| Thy swiftest Brook Thy love may curse or bless me | C |
| I care not if but once thou dost caress me | C |
| O Brook I follow thee | C |
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| All torn and bruised with mark of adze and chain | F |
| Hurled down the dizzy slide of sand | G |
| Tossed by great waves in ecstsy of pain | F |
| And rudely thrown at last to land | G |
| The Fir Tree heard quot Oh see | C |
| With what fierce love it is I must caress thee | C |
| I warned thee I might curse and never bless thee | C |
| Why didst thou follow me | C |
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| All stately set with spar and brace and rope | H |
| The Fir Tree stood and sailed and sailed | I |
| In wildest storm when all the ship lost hope | H |
| The Fir Tree never shook nor quailed | I |
| Nor ceased from saying quot Free | C |
| Art thou O Brook But once thou hast caressed me | C |
| For life for death thy love has cursed or blessed me | C |
| Behold I follow thee quot | I |
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| Lost in a night and no man left to tell | J |
| Crushed in the giant iceberg's play | K |
| The ship went down without a song a knell | J |
| Still drifts the Fir Tree night and day | K |
| Still moans along the sea | C |
| A voice quot O Fir Tree thus must I possess thee | C |
| Eternally brave love will I caress thee | C |
| Dead for the love of me quot | K |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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