The Orchard-pit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDC ECEEC FGFFG HIHHI JKLJK| The Orchard Pit | A |
| Piled deep below the screening apple branch | B |
| They lie with bitter apples in their hands | C |
| And some are only ancient bones that blanch | B |
| And some had ships that last year's wind did launch | D |
| And some were yesterday the lords of lands | C |
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| In the soft dell among the apple trees | E |
| High up above the hidden pit she stands | C |
| And there for ever sings who gave to these | E |
| That lie below her magic hour of ease | E |
| And those her apples holden in their hands | C |
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| This in my dreams is shown me and her hair | F |
| Crosses my lips and draws my burning breath | G |
| Her song spreads golden wings upon the air | F |
| Life's eyes are gleaming from her forehead fair | F |
| And from her breasts the ravishing eyes of Death | G |
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| Men say to me that sleep hath many dreams | H |
| Yet I knew never but this dream alone | I |
| There from a dried up channel once the stream's | H |
| The glen slopes up even such in sleep it seems | H |
| As to my waking sight the place well known | I |
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| My love I call her and she loves me well | J |
| But I love her as in the maelstrom's cup | K |
| The whirled stone loves the leaf inseparable | L |
| That clings to it round all the circling swell | J |
| And that the same last eddy swallows up | K |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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