Ten O'clock No More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EEFFD GHIIJ KKLAJ EEMNE EEEEE EEEEN OOPPN QREEMThe wind has thrown | A |
The boldest of trees down | B |
Now disgraced it lies | C |
Naked in spring beneath the drifting skies | C |
Naked and still | D |
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It was the wind | E |
So furious and blind | E |
That scourged half England through | F |
Ruining the fairest where most fair it grew | F |
By dell and hill | D |
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And springing here | G |
The black clouds dragging near | H |
Against this lonely elm | I |
Thrust all his strength to maim and overwhelm | I |
In one wild shock | J |
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As in the deep | K |
Satisfaction of dark sleep | K |
The tree her dream dreamed on | L |
And woke to feel the wind's arms round her thrown | A |
And her head rock | J |
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And the wind raught | E |
Her ageing boughs and caught | E |
Her body fast again | M |
Then in one agony of age grief pain | N |
She fell and died | E |
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Her noble height | E |
Branches that loved the light | E |
Her music and cool shade | E |
Her memories and all of her is dead | E |
On the hill side | E |
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But the wind stooped | E |
With madness tired and drooped | E |
In the soft valley and slept | E |
While morning strangely round the hush'd tree crept | E |
And called in vain | N |
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The birds fed where | O |
The roots uptorn and bare | O |
Thrust shameful at the sky | P |
And pewits round the tree would dip and cry | P |
With the old pain | N |
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Ten o'clock's gone | Q |
Said sadly every one | R |
And mothers looking thought | E |
Of sons and husbands far away that fought | E |
And looked again | M |
John Freeman
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