The Old Ash Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKELEL MNMNOGOG| Thou beautiful Ash thou art lowly laid | A |
| And my eyes shall hail no more | B |
| From afar thy cool and refreshing shade | A |
| When the toilsome journey's o'er | C |
| The winged and the wandering tribes of air | D |
| A home 'mid thy foliage found | E |
| But thy graceful boughs all broken and bare | D |
| The wild winds are scattering round | E |
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| The storm demon sent up his loudest shout | F |
| When he levelled his bolt at thee | G |
| When thy massy trunk and thy branches stout | F |
| Were riven by the blast old tree | G |
| It has bowed to the dust thy stately form | H |
| Which for many an age defied | I |
| The rush and the roar of the midnight storm | H |
| When it swept through thy branches wide | I |
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| I have gazed on thee with a fond delight | J |
| In childhood's happier day | K |
| And watched the moonbeams of a summer night | J |
| Through thy quivering branches play | K |
| I have gathered the ivy wreaths that bound | E |
| Thy old fantastic roots | L |
| And wove the wild flowers that blossomed round | E |
| With spring's first tender shoots | L |
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| And when youth with its glowing visions came | M |
| Thou wert still my favourite seat | N |
| And the ardent dreams of future fame | M |
| Were formed at thy hoary feet | N |
| Farewell farewell the wintry wind | O |
| Has waged unsparing war on thee | G |
| And only pictured on my mind | O |
| Remains thy form time honoured tree | G |
Susanna Moodie
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