An Apple Gathering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLN OPOP| I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree | A |
| And wore them all that evening in my hair | B |
| Then in due season when I went to see | A |
| I found no apples there | B |
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| With dangling basket all along the grass | C |
| As I had come I went the selfsame track | D |
| My neighbors mocked me while they saw me pass | C |
| So empty handed back | D |
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| Lilian and Lilias smiled in trudging by | E |
| Their heaped up basket teased me like a jeer | F |
| Sweet voiced they sang beneath the sunset sky | E |
| Their mother's home was near | F |
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| Plump Gertrude passed me with her basket full | G |
| A stronger hand than hers helped it along | H |
| A voice talked with her through the shadows cool | I |
| More sweet to me than song | H |
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| Ah Willie Willie was my love less worth | J |
| Than apples with their green leaves piled above | K |
| I counted rosiest apples on the earth | J |
| Of far less worth than love | K |
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| So once it was with me you stooped to talk | L |
| Laughing and listening in this very lane | M |
| To think that by this way we used to walk | L |
| We shall not walk again | N |
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| I let my neighbors pass me ones and twos | O |
| And groups the latest said the night grew chill | P |
| And hastened but I loitered while the dews | O |
| Fell fast I loitered still | P |
Christina Rossetti
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