The Way-side Elm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEFGGHH IIJJKKCC LLCCLLMM CCHHNNCC IIHHOOAA PPCCQQRRSSTT| Standing alone by the highway side | A |
| Stately and stalwart and tempest tried | A |
| Staunch of body and strong of bough | B |
| Fronting the sky with an honest brow | B |
| King of the forest and field is he | C |
| Yon way side watcher the old Elm tree | C |
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| When kindly Summer with smile serene | D |
| Drapes branch and bough in her robe of green | D |
| Ever the joyous wild birds come | E |
| And sing 'mid the clustering leaves at home | F |
| Ever the soft winds to and fro | G |
| Steal through the branches with music low | G |
| And golden sunbeams sparkle and play | H |
| And dance with shadows the livelong day | H |
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| Up to his forehead undimmed by time | I |
| The morning sun ray is first to climb | I |
| With the tender touch of its earliest beam | J |
| To break the spell of his dewy dream | J |
| And there the longest when daylight dies | K |
| The rosy lustre of sunset lies | K |
| As loath to fade on the distant sea | C |
| Without an adieu to the old Elm tree | C |
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| And grand it is when the wintry blast | L |
| With shout and clamor is sweeping past | L |
| To watch the stately and stern old tree | C |
| As he battles alone on the wintry lea | C |
| With leafy crown to the four winds cast | L |
| And stout arms bared to the ruffian blast | L |
| Or fiercely wrestles with wind and storm | M |
| Unbowed of forehead unbent of form | M |
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| O proud old tree O loneliest tree | C |
| Thy strong limbed brothers have passed from thee | C |
| One by one they've been swept away | H |
| And thou alone of the centuries grey | H |
| That have come and gone since thy hour of birth | N |
| And left their scars on the patient earth | N |
| Remainest to speak to the world and me | C |
| Of hoarded secrets that dwell with thee | C |
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| What of thy birth hour what of thy prime | I |
| Who trod the wastes in that olden time | I |
| Who gathered flowers where thy shadows lay | H |
| Who sought thy coolness at noon of day | H |
| What warrior chieftains what woodland maids | O |
| Looked up to thee from the dusky glades | O |
| Who warred and conquered who lived and died | A |
| In those far off years of the forest's pride | A |
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| No voice no answer So I too speak | P |
| Yet mine as the insect's call is weak | P |
| To break thy silence thou lonely tree | C |
| Or win a whispered reply from thee | C |
| Yet teacher mine thou hast taught my heart | Q |
| What soon from its records will not depart | Q |
| A lesson of patience a lesson of power | R |
| Of courage that fails not in danger's hour | R |
| Of calm endurance through winter's gloom | S |
| Of patient waiting for summer's bloom | S |
| And heavenward gazing through storm and night | T |
| Like thee to watch for the dawning light | T |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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