Vaunting Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED FGE GGG GHG HDH DID IJI KDL MDM DDD| He is a tower unleaning But how he ll break | A |
| If Heaven assault him with full wind and sleet | B |
| And what uproar tall trees concumbent make | A |
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| More than a hundred years and a hundred feet | B |
| Naked he rears against cold skies eruptive | C |
| Only his temporal twigs unsure of seat | B |
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| And the frail leaves of a season who are susceptive | C |
| To the mad humors of wind and turn and flee | D |
| In panic round the stem on which they are captive | C |
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| Now a certain heart too young and mortally | D |
| Yoked with an unbeliever of bantering brood | E |
| Observed as an eminent witness of life the tree | D |
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| She exulted wrapped in a phantasy of good | F |
| Be the great oak for his long winterings | G |
| Our symbol of love better than summer s brood | E |
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| Then the patient oak delivered of his pangs | G |
| Put forth profuse his green banners of peace | G |
| And testified to her with innumerable tongues | G |
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| And what but she fetch me up to the steep place | G |
| Where the oak vaunted A flat where birdsong flew | H |
| Had to be traversed and a quick populace | G |
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| Of daisies and yellow kinds and here she knew | H |
| Instructed well by much mortality | D |
| Better than brag in this distraught purlieu | H |
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| Above their pied and dusty clumps was he | D |
| Standing sheer on his hill not much soiled over | I |
| By the knobs and broken boughs of an old tree | D |
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| She looked and murmured Established there forever | I |
| But that her pitiful error be undone | J |
| I knocked upon his house a sorrowing lover | I |
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| And like a funeral came the hollow tone | K |
| The grand old fellow I grieved holds gallantly | D |
| But before our joy has lapsed even will be gone | L |
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| I beat more sternly and the dolorous cry | M |
| Boomed till its loud reverberance outsounded | D |
| The singing of bees or the coward birds that fly | M |
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| Otherwhere with their songs when summer is sped | D |
| And if they stayed would perish miserably | D |
| Or the weeping girl remembering her dread | D |
John Crowe Ransom
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