The Expert And The Apricot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGC HHIICJJEDC KKLLCMMNNC OOPPCCCQ C| The orchardist with hope aglow | A |
| Sets out a crop of fruit to grow | A |
| And sell it wisely where he can | B |
| Like any other business man | B |
| And he strives to make a contract fair and free | C |
| But 'Fie ' exclaims the Government | D |
| 'Have we not experts heaven sent | E |
| Who by their schemes an shrewd advice | F |
| Will win you twice the market price ' | G |
| And the bloom begins to burgeon on the tree | C |
| - | |
| Then lo with docket and with file | H |
| The studious experts toy the while | H |
| With rain and sun the season goes | I |
| The blossom falls the fruit it grows | I |
| As bureaucrats debate and disagree | C |
| They look up section forty two | J |
| And regulation Seven Q | J |
| All eagerly upon the scent | E |
| Of written rule and precedent | D |
| And the apricot is hardening on the tree | C |
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| The orchardist toils in the sun | K |
| He prunes and delves and one by one | K |
| The trees are sprayed with Parls Green | L |
| Or mayhap soap or kerosene | L |
| Or some vile mixture dear to chemistry | C |
| Meantime a sale the experts seek | M |
| Not hurriedly all in a week | M |
| But in a manner dignified | N |
| As fits such men of knowledge wide | N |
| And the apricot is ripening on the tree | C |
| - | |
| Gravely they ponder this and that | O |
| While buyers wait upon the mat | O |
| And as the smiling autumn comes | P |
| They chew their pens and suck their thumbs | P |
| And argue over Section Ninety D | C |
| And while the harried orchardist | C |
| Grieves for the market that he missed | C |
| They suddenly wake up and say | Q |
| 'We have agreed at last Hooray ' | - |
| But the apricot is rotting 'neath the tree | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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