Eliot's Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCCD| Thou ancient oak whose myriad leaves are loud | A |
| With sounds of unintelligible speech | B |
| Sounds as of surges on a shingly beach | B |
| Or multitudinous murmurs of a crowd | A |
| With some mysterious gift of tongues endowed | A |
| Thou speakest a different dialect to each | B |
| To me a language that no man can teach | B |
| Of a lost race long vanished like a cloud | A |
| For underneath thy shade in days remote | C |
| Seated like Abraham at eventide | C |
| Beneath the oaks of Mamre the unknown | D |
| Apostle of the Indians Eliot wrote | C |
| His Bible in a language that hath died | C |
| And is forgotten save by thee alone | D |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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