August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBC DDEEDE FFGGFG HHIIHJ KKLLKL MMNNMO KKPPKP QQRRQR SSTTST FFCCFCTHERE WERE four apples on the bough | A |
Half gold half red that one might know | B |
The blood was ripe inside the core | C |
The colour of the leaves was more | C |
Like stems of yellow corn that grow | B |
Through all the gold June meadow s floor | C |
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The warm smell of the fruit was good | D |
To feed on and the split green wood | D |
With all its bearded lips and stains | E |
Of mosses in the cloven veins | E |
Most pleasant if one lay or stood | D |
In sunshine or in happy rains | E |
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There were four apples on the tree | F |
Red stained through gold that all might see | F |
The sun went warm from core to rind | G |
The green leaves made the summer blind | G |
In that soft place they kept for me | F |
With golden apples shut behind | G |
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The leaves caught gold across the sun | H |
And where the bluest air begun | H |
Thirsted for song to help the heat | I |
As I to feel my lady s feet | I |
Draw close before the day were done | H |
Both lips grew dry with dreams of it | J |
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In the mute August afternoon | K |
They trembled to some undertune | K |
Of music in the silver air | L |
Great pleasure was it to be there | L |
Till green turned duskier and the moon | K |
Coloured the corn sheaves like gold hair | L |
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That August time it was delight | M |
To watch the red moons wane to white | M |
Twixt grey seamed stems of apple trees | N |
A sense of heavy harmonies | N |
Grew on the growth of patient night | M |
More sweet than shapen music is | O |
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But some three hours before the moon | K |
The air still eager from the noon | K |
Flagged after heat not wholly dead | P |
Against the stem I leant my head | P |
The colour soothed me like a tune | K |
Green leaves all round the gold and red | P |
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I lay there till the warm smell grew | Q |
More sharp when flecks of yellow dew | Q |
Between the round ripe leaves had blurred | R |
The rind with stain and wet I heard | R |
A wind that blew and breathed and blew | Q |
Too weak to alter its one word | R |
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The wet leaves next the gentle fruit | S |
Felt smoother and the brown tree root | S |
Felt the mould warmer I too felt | T |
As water feels the slow gold melt | T |
Right through it when the day burns mute | S |
The peace of time wherein love dwelt | T |
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There were four apples on the tree | F |
Gold stained on red that all might see | F |
The sweet blood filled them to the core | C |
The colour of her hair is more | C |
Like stems of fair faint gold that be | F |
Mown from the harvest s middle floor | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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