The Shepherd's Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHGHII| Huge 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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