The Orange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGEEHHIIJJKK LLEEEEMMNNOOPPQQEE RREESSThe month was June the day was hot | A |
And Philip had an orange got | A |
The fruit was fragrant tempting bright | B |
Refreshing to the smell and sight | B |
Not of that puny size which calls | C |
Poor customers to common stalls | C |
But large and massy full of juice | D |
As any Lima can produce | D |
The liquor would if squeez d out | E |
Have filled a tumbler thereabout | E |
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The happy boy with greedy eyes | F |
Surveys and re surveys his prize | F |
He turns it round and longs to drain | G |
And with the juice his lips to stain | G |
His throat and lips were parched with heat | E |
The orange seemed to cry Come eat | E |
He from his pocket draws a knife | H |
When in his thoughts there rose a strife | H |
Which folks experience when they wish | I |
Yet scruple to begin a dish | I |
And by their hesitation own | J |
It is too good to eat alone | J |
But appetite o'er indecision | K |
Prevails and Philip makes incision | K |
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The melting fruit in quarters came | L |
Just then there pass d by a dame | L |
One of the poorer sort she seemed | E |
As by her garb you would have deemed | E |
Who in her toil worn arms did hold | E |
A sickly infant ten months old | E |
That from a fever caught in spring | M |
Was slowly then recovering | M |
The child attracted by the view | N |
Of that fair orange feebly threw | N |
A languid look perhaps the smell | O |
Convinced it that there sure must dwell | O |
A corresponding sweetness there | P |
Where lodged a scent so good and rare | P |
Perhaps the smell the fruit did give | Q |
Felt healing and restorative | Q |
For never had the child been graced | E |
To know such dainties by their taste | E |
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When Philip saw the infant crave | R |
He straightway to the mother gave | R |
His quartered orange nor would stay | E |
To hear her thanks but tripped away | E |
Then to the next clear spring he ran | S |
To quench his drought a happy man | S |
Charles Lamb
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