The Shepherd's Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHGHIIHuge elm with rifted trunk all notched and scarred | A |
Like to a warrior's destiny I love | B |
To stretch me often on thy shadowed sward | C |
And hear the laugh of summer leaves above | B |
Or on thy buttressed roots to sit and lean | D |
In careless attitude and there reflect | E |
On times and deeds and darings that have been | F |
Old castaways now swallowed in neglect | E |
While thou art towering in thy strength of heart | G |
Stirring the soul to vain imaginings | H |
In which life's sordid being hath no part | G |
The wind of that eternal ditty sings | H |
Humming of future things that burn the mind | I |
To leave some fragment of itself behind | I |
John Clare
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