Why poet repeats the line ten tall oak trees
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because the king at first one cut down to build warship and second one is taken for charcoal while the third is struck down by lightning other two are cut for firewood and for making barrels leaving 5 the one fall on the wild wine and other one is cut down by carpenter for making floor boards The council decided to bring down one considering it unsafe and yet another one is cut to make way for the bypass road leaving just a single one the formal deals the final blow to the alone is standing oaktree stating that it is a nonsense
a Scottish author, an environmental/historical countdown, beginning with a scene in Tudor Britain: ``Ten tall oaktrees/Standing in a line,/`Warships,' cried King Henry,/Then there were nine.'' In the 18th century, one tree goes for charcoal; lightning, firewood, barrels, and the wind account for others, with the last succumbing, in this century, to a builder, a council (``unsafe''), ``progress'' (a highway), and a farmer (though why he finds the last tree a ``nuisance'' in a field of sheep remains a mystery). It's a clever idea, neatly phrased in verse but imperfectly developed in the rather ordinary illustrations, where the changing periods and activities are indicated competently enough but the trees never age or grow in 400 years. (Picture book. 4-8)