Ten O'clock And Four O'clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHCACIGJKLMBN OPQRSH B| It stands there | A |
| Tall and solitary on the edge | B |
| Of the last hill green on the green hill | C |
| Ten o'clock the tree's called no one knows why | D |
| Perhaps it was planted there at ten o'clock | E |
| Or someone was hanged there at ten o'clock | E |
| A hundred such good reasons might be found | F |
| But no one knows It vexed me that none knew | G |
| Seeing it miles and miles off and then nearer | H |
| And nearer yet until beneath the hill | C |
| I looked up up and saw it nodding there | A |
| A single tree upon the sharp edged hill | C |
| Holding its leaves though in the orchard all | I |
| Leaves and fruit were stripped or hung but few | G |
| Red and yellow over the littered grass | J |
| It vexed me the brave tree and senseless name | K |
| As I went through the valley looking up | L |
| And then looked round on elm and beech and chestnut | M |
| And all that lingering flame amid the hedge | B |
| That marked the miles and miles | N |
| Then I forgot | O |
| For through the apple orchard's shadow I saw | P |
| Between the dark boughs of the cherry orchard | Q |
| A great slow fire which Time had lit to burn | R |
| The mortal seasons up and leave bare black | S |
| Unchanging Winter | H |
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| Weston sub Edge | B |
John Freeman
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