A Tree In The Ghetto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH BJKL MEDB NBDB BODO DPIP FQRS DBNB| There stands in th' leafless Ghetto | A |
| One spare leaved ancient tree | B |
| Above the Ghetto noises | C |
| It moans eternally | B |
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| In wonderment it muses | D |
| And murmurs with a sigh | E |
| Alas how God forsaken | F |
| And desolate am I | E |
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| Alas the stony alleys | G |
| And noises loud and bold | H |
| Where are ye birds of summer | I |
| Where are ye woods of old | H |
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| And where ye breezes balmy | B |
| That wandered vagrant here | J |
| And where oh sweep of heavens | K |
| So deep and blue and clear | L |
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| Where are ye mighty giants | M |
| Ye come not riding by | E |
| Upon your fiery horses | D |
| A whistling merrily | B |
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| Of other days my dreaming | N |
| Of other days ah me | B |
| When sturdy hero races | D |
| Lived wild and glad and free | B |
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| The old sun shone how brightly | B |
| The old lark sang what song | O |
| O'er earth Desire and Gladness | D |
| Reigned happily and long | O |
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| But see what are these ant hills | D |
| These ants that creep and crawl | P |
| Bereft of man and nature | I |
| My life is stripped of all | P |
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| And I an ancient orphan | F |
| What do I here alone | Q |
| My friends have all departed | R |
| My youth and glory gone | S |
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| Oh tear me root and branches | D |
| No longer let me be | B |
| A living head stone brooding | N |
| O'er the grave of liberty | B |
Morris Rosenfeld
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