Geometry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHH IIJJ KKLLMM NOEEPP QQRRSSTUVV WWAAXXYYII AAZZA2A2 DDB2B2C2C2AA DDAA

My window looks upon a woodA
That stands as tangled as it stoodA
When God was centuries too youngB
To care how right he worked or wrongC
His patterns in obedient treesD
Unprofited by the centuriesD
He still plants on as crazilyE
As in his drivelling infancyE
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Poor little elms beneath the oakF
They thrash their arms around and pokeF
At tyrant throats and try to standG
Straight up like owners of the landG
For they expect the vainest thingsH
And even the boniest have their flingsH
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Hickory shoots unnumbered riseI
Sallow and wasting themselves in sighsI
Children begot at a criminal rateJ
In the sight of a God that is profligateJ
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The oak trees tower over allK
They seem to rise above the brawlK
They seem but just observe the hoaxL
They are obscured by other oaksL
They laugh the weaklings out of mindM
And fight forever with their kindM
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For oaks are spindling too and bentN
And only strong by accidentO
And if there is a single treeE
Of half the size it ought to beE
It need not give him thanks for thatP
He did not plan its habitatP
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When tree tops go to pushing soQ
There's every evil thing belowQ
There's clammy fungus everywhereR
And poison waving on the airR
A plague of insects from the poolS
To sting some ever trusting foolS
Serpents issuing from the footT
Of oak trees rotten at the rootU
Owls and frogs and whippoorwillsV
Cackling of all sorts of illsV
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Imagine what a pretty thingW
The slightest landscape gardeningW
Had made of God's neglected woodA
I'm glad man has the hardihoodA
To tamper with creation's planX
And shape it worthier of manX
Imagine woods and sun swept spacesY
Shadows and lights in proper placesY
Trees just touching friendly wiseI
Bees and flowers and butterfliesI
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An easy thing to improve on GodA
Simply the knowing of even from oddA
Simply to count and then disposeZ
In patterns everybody knowsZ
Simply to follow curve and lineA2
In geometrical designA2
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Gardeners only cut their treesD
For nobler regularitiesD
But from my window I have seenB2
The noblest patch of quivering greenB2
Lashed till it never quivered againC2
God had a fit of temper thenC2
And spat shrill wind and lightning outA
At twinges of some godly goutA
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But as for me I keep indoorsD
Whenever he starts his awful roarsD
What can one hope of a crazy GodA
But lashings from an aimless rodA

John Crowe Ransom



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