The Pine Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLIL MNMN OPOP QJQJ RSRS LJLJ| The wind last night was wild and strong | A |
| It shriek'd it whistl'd and it roar'd | B |
| And went with whirl and swoop along | A |
| 'Mid falling trees and crashing board | B |
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| The timbers creak'd the rafters sway'd | C |
| And e'en some roofs upheav'd and torn | D |
| Came crashing to the earth and laid | C |
| Before the view upon the morn | D |
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| The air seem'd like some monstrous thing | E |
| By its uncurbed passion held | F |
| Like dreadful dragon on the wing | E |
| So horribly it scream'd and yell'd | F |
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| Now venting a triumphant shout | G |
| And ever and anon a groan | H |
| Like fiend from prison lately out | G |
| Or like unhappy chain'd one's moan | H |
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| There was a lofty pine I knew | I |
| Each morn and eve I passed it by | J |
| To such a lofty height it grew | I |
| It caught at once each passing eye | J |
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| It stood alone and proudly stood | K |
| With straight and clean and lofty stem | L |
| All other trees it seemed to view | I |
| As though it scorn'd to live with them | L |
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| Full many a winter's snow had whirl'd | M |
| About its base and settl'd there | N |
| And many an autumn mist had curl'd | M |
| About its head so high in air | N |
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| Full many a blast had spent in vain | O |
| Its force for ever like a rock | P |
| It stood each persevering strain | O |
| And long defied the tempest's shock | P |
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| But yesternight it crashing fell | Q |
| And now this morn I see it lie | J |
| I knew the brave old tree so well | Q |
| A tear almost bedims my eye | J |
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| But brave old trees like brave old men | R |
| Must feel at last the fatal stroke | S |
| That dashest them to earth again | R |
| Tho' lofty pine or mighty oak | S |
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| I'll miss old tree thy lofty stem | L |
| Outlin'd against the distant sky | J |
| But 'tis no gain to fret for them | L |
| For men or trees that fall and die | J |
Thomas Frederick Young
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