The Haunted Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKKLMNKOKPK KKOKKKKKQKRFSOKTUOVWThose silver clouds collected round the sun | A |
His mid day warmth abate not seeming less | B |
To overshade than multiply his beams | C |
By soft reflection grateful to the sky | D |
To rocks fields woods Nor doth our human sense | E |
Ask for its pleasure screen or canopy | F |
More ample than the time dismantled Oak | G |
Spreads o'er this tuft of heath which now attired | H |
In the whole fulness of its bloom affords | I |
Couch beautiful as e'er for earthly use | J |
Was fashioned whether by the hand of Art | K |
That eastern Sultan amid flowers enwrought | K |
On silken tissue might diffuse his limbs | L |
In languor or by Nature for repose | M |
Of panting Wood nymph wearied with the chase | N |
O Lady fairer in thy Poet's sight | K |
Than fairest spiritual creature of the groves | O |
Approach and thus invited crown with rest | K |
The noon tide hour though truly some there are | P |
Whose footsteps superstitiously avoid | K |
This venerable Tree for when the wind | K |
Blows keenly it sends forth a creaking sound | K |
Above the general roar of woods and crags | O |
Distinctly heard from far a doleful note | K |
As if so Grecian shepherds would have deemed | K |
The Hamadryad pent within bewailed | K |
Some bitter wrong Nor is it unbelieved | K |
By ruder fancy that a troubled ghost | K |
Haunts the old trunk lamenting deeds of which | Q |
The flowery ground is conscious But no wind | K |
Sweeps now along this elevated ridge | R |
Not even a zephyr stirs the obnoxious Tree | F |
Is mute and in his silence would look down | S |
O lovely Wanderer of the trackless hills | O |
On thy reclining form with more delight | K |
Than his coevals in the sheltered vale | T |
Seem to participate the while they view | U |
Their own far stretching arms and leafy heads | O |
Vividly pictured in some glassy pool | V |
That for a brief space checks the hurrying stream | W |
William Wordsworth
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