Lament Of The Maple Tree. A Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFDDGGBBHHII DDAAJJDDIIKKLLKKDMNN IIOOKKNNPPDDQQDDRRKK SSKKDDSSSSKKNNTIDDMM NNOONNOO UWe had a dream which was not all a dream Byron | A |
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I laid me down one day in June | B |
It was late long afternoon | B |
A very sultry summer's eve | C |
Such times the senses oft deceive | C |
The place was 'neath a maple tree | D |
Soon from all cares and troubles free | D |
By a gentle kindly slumber | E |
No more our sorrows we could number | E |
But we heard a plaintive wail | F |
Such as we find in fairy tale | F |
It was the genius of the tree | D |
Who in sad guise appeared to me | D |
And then she sadly did give vent | G |
Unto this awful grave lament | G |
Though I am gay in month of June | B |
All decked in green yet very soon | B |
Alas my beauty will be faded | H |
And my charms be all degraded | H |
For is my time of glory brief | I |
So often flattered is my leaf | I |
In Canada so broad and free | D |
All poets sing of the maple tree | D |
High I stand in their opinion | A |
Emblem of the New Dominion | A |
The reason I do them upbraid | J |
Some never slept beneath my shade | J |
And yet they take the liberty | D |
To chant about the maple tree | D |
They dare to poetise my leaf | I |
This is the source of all my grief | I |
I think their praises all so rude | K |
And as but base ingratitude | K |
So often hackneyed is my name | L |
That every fall I burn with shame | L |
Like maiden's cheek which blushes red | K |
When vain rash youth asks her to wed | K |
Then do these foolish ones descry | D |
In me fresh beauty and they sigh | M |
And then renew their songs of praise | N |
But unto me how sad their lays | N |
For then I know my days are brief | I |
'Tis hectic flush upon my leaf | I |
True poets then should mournful sing | O |
When the destroyer's on the wing | O |
For then I know my leaves of gold | K |
Will all soon mingle with the mould | K |
No one does ever think to praise | N |
The fell destroyer when he slays | N |
None rejoice in the flushed cheek | P |
When the poor girl is low and weak | P |
Perhaps they'll say and it is true | D |
In spring my glories I'll renew | D |
But 'tis poor comfort after all | Q |
To lose my offspring every fall | Q |
Small consolation to mother | D |
To tell her that soon another | D |
Will replace her fond darling boy | R |
Who has been source of all her joy | R |
But you know all about my wood | K |
You know that it is strong and good | K |
And I have full many a curl | S |
And pleasing eye and charming nurl | S |
Some love me as fond nature grained | K |
And some prefer my beauty stained | K |
But my dear friend I hope that you | D |
My varied shades love pure and true | D |
For of the woods you know the staple | S |
Stoutest and best is good maple | S |
The youth my sugar eat with glee | S |
And old maids love me in their tea | S |
In me do various uses meet | K |
In summer shade in winter heat | K |
For I do make a glorious blaze | N |
All worthy of the poet's lays | N |
But to their praises I'll be deaf | T |
If more they harp about my leaf | I |
They call me gay when I am sober | D |
To me 'tis gloomy month October | D |
But saints on earth when they die | M |
Hope for true bliss beyond the sky | M |
So winter does bring no alarms | N |
Though it strip bare my trunk and arms | N |
For now I know that time will bring | O |
More glorious foliage in the spring | O |
Then all nature will rejoice | N |
Triumphing with glorious voice | N |
And birds will in my branches sing | O |
Hosannas to the lovely spring | O |
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The nurls and birds' eyes and curls were highly prized in furniture thirty years ago when we used the smooth plain | U |
James Mcintyre
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