Rhymes And Rhythms - Xvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGH IDJDKLM DNANA O PADADQRQ STUTAVUVCARMEN PATIBULARE | A |
To H S | B |
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Tree Old Tree of the Triple Crook | C |
And the rope of the Black Election | D |
'Tis the faith of the Fool that a race you rule | E |
Can never achieve perfection | D |
And 'It's O for the time of the New Sublime | F |
And the better than human way | G |
When the Wolf poor beast shall come to his own | H |
And the Rat shall have his day ' | - |
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For Tree Old Tree of the Triple Beam | I |
And the power of provocation | D |
You have cockered the Brute with your dreadful fruit | J |
Till your thought is mere stupration | D |
And 'It's how should we rise to be pure and wise | K |
And how can we choose but fall | L |
So long as the Hangman makes us dread | M |
And the Noose floats free for all ' | - |
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So Tree Old Tree of the Triple Coign | D |
And the trick there's no recalling | N |
They will haggle and hew till they hack you through | A |
And at last they lay you sprawling | N |
When 'Hey for the hour of the race in flower | A |
And the long good bye to sin ' | - |
And 'Ho for the fires of Hell gone out | O |
For the want of keeping in ' | - |
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But Tree Old Tree of the Triple Bough | P |
And the ghastly Dreams that tend you | A |
Your growth began with the life of Man | D |
And only his death can end you | A |
They may tug in line at your hempen twine | D |
They may flourish with axe and saw | Q |
But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs | R |
In the living rock of Law | Q |
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And Tree Old Tree of the Triple Fork | S |
When the spent sun reels and blunders | T |
Down a welkin lit with the flare of the Pit | U |
As it seethes in spate and thunders | T |
Stern on the glare of the tortured air | A |
Your lines august shall gloom | V |
And your master beam be the last thing whelmed | U |
In the ruining roar of Doom | V |
William Ernest Henley
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