The Orange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGEEHHIIJJKK LLEEEEMMNNOOPPQQEE RREESS

The month was June the day was hotA
And Philip had an orange gotA
The fruit was fragrant tempting brightB
Refreshing to the smell and sightB
Not of that puny size which callsC
Poor customers to common stallsC
But large and massy full of juiceD
As any Lima can produceD
The liquor would if squeez d outE
Have filled a tumbler thereaboutE
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The happy boy with greedy eyesF
Surveys and re surveys his prizeF
He turns it round and longs to drainG
And with the juice his lips to stainG
His throat and lips were parched with heatE
The orange seemed to cry Come eatE
He from his pocket draws a knifeH
When in his thoughts there rose a strifeH
Which folks experience when they wishI
Yet scruple to begin a dishI
And by their hesitation ownJ
It is too good to eat aloneJ
But appetite o'er indecisionK
Prevails and Philip makes incisionK
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The melting fruit in quarters cameL
Just then there pass d by a dameL
One of the poorer sort she seemedE
As by her garb you would have deemedE
Who in her toil worn arms did holdE
A sickly infant ten months oldE
That from a fever caught in springM
Was slowly then recoveringM
The child attracted by the viewN
Of that fair orange feebly threwN
A languid look perhaps the smellO
Convinced it that there sure must dwellO
A corresponding sweetness thereP
Where lodged a scent so good and rareP
Perhaps the smell the fruit did giveQ
Felt healing and restorativeQ
For never had the child been gracedE
To know such dainties by their tasteE
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When Philip saw the infant craveR
He straightway to the mother gaveR
His quartered orange nor would stayE
To hear her thanks but tripped awayE
Then to the next clear spring he ranS
To quench his drought a happy manS

Charles Lamb



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