"The War Against the Trees" consists of a total of thirty lines organized into five stanzas of six lines each. In each stanza, at least two lines rhyme. Rhyme is always masculine, that is, monosyllabic, as in show/row, town/down, and scars/cars. These rhyming lines are further unified by having approximately the same number of syllables and accents, and generally, the same rhythm, either iambic tetrameter or pentameter. Finally, these lines are united by their appearance on the page, by extending farther than the stanza's other lines. Together, these similarities constitute a "major pair." In addition to the major pairs, there are also minor pairs, "minor" because if the lines rhyme, as in lines 1 and 4 (oil/soil), they do not.....
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