A Tree Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHGIBAB JKDDLBMB NOPOQBRB SBSBNBNB DBTB| Of all the trees that grow so fair | A |
| Old England to adorn | B |
| Greater are none beneath the Sun | C |
| Than Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
| Sing Oak and Ash and Thorn good sirs | D |
| All of a Midsummer morn | B |
| Surely we sing no little thing | E |
| In Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
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| Oak of the Clay lived many a day | F |
| Or ever AEneas began | G |
| Ash of the Loam was a lady at home | H |
| When Brut was an outlaw man | G |
| Thorn of the Down saw New Troy Town | I |
| From which was London born | B |
| Witness hereby the ancientry | A |
| Of Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
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| Yew that is old in churchyard mould | J |
| He breedeth a mighty bow | K |
| Alder for shoes do wise men choose | D |
| And beech for cups also | D |
| But when ye have killed and your bowl is spilled | L |
| And your shoes are clean outworn | B |
| Back ye must speed for all that ye need | M |
| To Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
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| Ellum she hateth mankind and waiteth | N |
| Till every gust be laid | O |
| To drop a limb on the head of him | P |
| That anyway trusts her shade | O |
| But whether a lad be sober or sad | Q |
| Or mellow with ale from the horn | B |
| He will take no wrong when he lieth along | R |
| 'Neath Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
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| Oh do not tell the Priest our plight | S |
| Or he would call it a sin | B |
| But we have been out in the woods all night | S |
| A conjuring Summer in | B |
| And we bring you news by word of mouth | N |
| Good news for cattle and corn | B |
| Now is the Sun come up from the South | N |
| With Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
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| Sing Oak and Ash and Thorn good sirs | D |
| All of a Midsummer morn | B |
| England shall bide ti Judgment Tide | T |
| By Oak and Ash and Thorn | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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