The Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDFEF GHGHIIJKLJL| Splendours of sunset burned upon the ground | A |
| As from the lane's deep shade | B |
| Emerging a warm grassy plat we found | A |
| Skirting the forest glade | B |
| And in the midst a solitary oak | C |
| No sound the bright and haunting stillness broke | C |
| As we beheld the wonder of this tree | D |
| His shadowy core invaded thick by rays | E |
| That kindled the rough trunk and ardently | D |
| Made burn the massy branches thrusting higher | F |
| And wider their strong foliage knotted sprays | E |
| Of tawny and bronze leaves defined in fire | F |
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| Silence possessed us pausing and our eyes | G |
| Stayed wondering to behold | H |
| In that illumined solitude arise | G |
| Those fiery branches old | H |
| It seemed a mighty apparition brought | I |
| From far to trouble us planted beyond thought | I |
| And budding calm into a time not ours | J |
| Then then smote full upon our inmost heart | K |
| Its mortal weakness without bound and vast | L |
| Our longing but our scope brief as the flowers | J |
| That in a season perish and are past | L |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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