Lines On Captain Wogan. To An Oak Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN HGHG OEOE| To an Oak Tree In the Churchyard of In the Highlands of Scotland Said to Mark the Grave of Captain Wogan Killed in | A |
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| Emblem of England's ancient faith | B |
| Full proudly may thy branches wave | C |
| Where loyalty lies low in death | D |
| And valour fills a timeless grave | C |
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| And thou brave tenant of the tomb | E |
| Repine not if our clime deny | F |
| Above thine honoured sod to bloom | E |
| The flowerets of a milder sky | F |
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| These owe their birth to genial May | G |
| Beneath a fiercer sun they pine | H |
| Before the winter storm decay | G |
| And can their worth be type of thine | H |
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| No for 'mid storms of Fate opposing | I |
| Still higher swelled thy dauntless heart | J |
| And while Despair the scene was closing | I |
| Commenced thy brief but brilliant part | J |
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| Twas then thou sought'st on Albyn's hill | K |
| When England's sons the strife resigned | L |
| A rugged race resisting still | K |
| And unsubdued though unrefined | L |
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| Thy death's hour heard no kindred wail | M |
| No holy knell thy requiem rung | N |
| Thy mourners were the plaided Gael | M |
| Thy dirge the clamorous pibroch sung | N |
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| Yet who in Fortune's summer shine | H |
| To waste life's longest term away | G |
| Would change that glorious dawn of thine | H |
| Though darkened ere its noontide day | G |
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| Be thine the Tree whose dauntless boughs | O |
| Brave summer's drought and winter's gloom | E |
| Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows | O |
| As Albyn shadows Wogan's tomb | E |
Sir Walter Scott
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