In A Wook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DBDBEFEB GHGHIIIH JKJKLLLK BFBFBBBF| PALE beech and pine tree blue | A |
| Set in one clay | B |
| Bough to bough cannot you | A |
| Bide out your day | B |
| When the rains skim and skip | C |
| Why mar sweet comradeship | C |
| Blighting with poison drip | C |
| Neighborly spray | B |
| - | |
| Heart halt and spirit lame | D |
| City opprest | B |
| Unto this wood I came | D |
| As to a nest | B |
| Dreaming that sylvan peace | E |
| Offered the harrowed ease | F |
| Nature a soft release | E |
| From men's unrest | B |
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| But having entered in | G |
| Great growths and small | H |
| Show them to men akin | G |
| Combatants all | H |
| Sycamore shoulders oak | I |
| Bines the slim sapling yoke | I |
| Ivy spun halters choke | I |
| Elms stout and tall | H |
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| Touches from ash O wych | J |
| Sting you like scorn | K |
| You too brave hollies twitch | J |
| Sidelong from thorn | K |
| Even the rank poplars bear | L |
| Illy a rival's air | L |
| Cankering in black despair | L |
| If overborne | K |
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| Since then no grace I find | B |
| Taught me of trees | F |
| Turn I back to my kind | B |
| Worthy as these | F |
| There at least smiles abound | B |
| There discourse trills around | B |
| There now and then are found | B |
| Life loyalties | F |
Thomas Hardy
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