The Olive Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBCDEEFGHBI JHFKL G| Save for a lusterless honing stone of moon | A |
| The sky stretches its flawless canopy | B |
| Blue as the blue silk of the Jewish flag | C |
| Over the valley and out to sea | B |
| It is bluest just above the olive tree | B |
| You cannot find in twisted Italy | B |
| So straight a one it stands not on a crag | C |
| Is not humpbacked with bearing in scored stone | D |
| But perfectly erect in my front yard | E |
| Oblivious of its fame The fruit is hard | E |
| Multitudinous acid tight on the stem | F |
| The leaves ride boat like in the brimming sun | G |
| Going nowhere and scooping up the light | H |
| It is the silver tree the holy tree | B |
| Tree of all attributes | I |
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| Now on the lawn | J |
| The olives fall by thousands and I delight | H |
| To shed my tennis shoes and walk on them | F |
| Pressing them coldly into the deep grass | K |
| In love and reverence for the total loss | L |
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| Anonymous submission | G |
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