Stone Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBCB DEFEFCD GGGHGGH IJKGJGG GGGLGGL| Last night a sword light in the sky | A |
| Flashed a swift terror on the dark | B |
| In that sharp light the fields did lie | A |
| Naked and stone like each tree stood | C |
| Like a tranced woman bound and stark | B |
| Far off the wood | C |
| With darkness ridged the riven dark | B |
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| And cows astonished stared with fear | D |
| And sheep crept to the knees of cows | E |
| And conies to their burrows slid | F |
| And rooks were still in rigid boughs | E |
| And all things else were still or hid | F |
| From all the wood | C |
| Came but the owl's hoot ghostly clear | D |
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| In that cold trance the earth was held | G |
| It seemed an age or time was nought | G |
| Sure never from that stone like field | G |
| Sprang golden corn nor from those chill | H |
| Gray granite trees was music wrought | G |
| In all the wood | G |
| Even the tall poplar hung stone still | H |
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| It seemed an age or time was none | I |
| Slowly the earth heaved out of sleep | J |
| And shivered and the trees of stone | K |
| Bent and sighed in the gusty wind | G |
| And rain swept as birds flocking sweep | J |
| Far off the wood | G |
| Rolled the slow thunders on the wind | G |
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| From all the wood came no brave bird | G |
| No song broke through the close fall'n night | G |
| Nor any sound from cowering herd | G |
| Only a dog's long lonely howl | L |
| When from the window poured pale light | G |
| And from the wood | G |
| The hoot came ghostly of the owl | L |
John Freeman
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