An Apple Tree In France Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKDDLLMMNN OOPPFFQQPP| An apple tree beside the way | A |
| Drinking the sunshine day by day | A |
| According to the Master's plan | B |
| Had been a faithful friend to man | B |
| It had been kind to all who came | C |
| Nor asked the traveler's race or name | C |
| But with the peasant boy or king | D |
| Had shared its blossoms in the spring | D |
| And from the summer's dreary heat | E |
| To all had offered sweet retreat | E |
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| When autumn brought the harvest time | F |
| Its branches all who wished might climb | F |
| And take from many a tender shoot | G |
| Its rosy cheeked delicious fruit | G |
| Good men by careless speech or deed | H |
| Have caused a neighbor's heart to bleed | H |
| Wrong has been done by high intent | I |
| Hate has been born where love was meant | I |
| Yet apple trees of field or farm | J |
| Have never done one mortal harm | J |
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| Then came the Germans into France | K |
| And found this apple tree by chance | K |
| They shared its blossoms in the spring | D |
| They heard the songs the thrushes sing | D |
| They rested in the cooling shade | L |
| Its old and friendly branches made | L |
| And in the fall its fruit they ate | M |
| And then they turn on it in hate | M |
| Like beasts on blood and passion drunk | N |
| They hewed great gashes in its trunk | N |
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| Beneath its roots with hell's delight | O |
| They placed destruction's dynamite | O |
| And blew to death with impish glee | P |
| An old and friendly apple tree | P |
| Men may rebuild their homes in time | F |
| Swiftly cathedral towers may climb | F |
| And hearts forget their weight of woe | Q |
| As over them life's currents flow | Q |
| But this their lasting shame shall be | P |
| They put to death an apple tree | P |
Edgar Albert Guest
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