If Still Your Orchards Bear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFGCAHA IJKC LMNB| Brother that breathe the August air | A |
| Ten thousand years from now | B |
| And smell mdash if still your orchards bear | A |
| Tart apples on the bough mdash | C |
| - | |
| The early windfall under the tree | D |
| And see the red fruit shine | E |
| I cannot think your thoughts will be | D |
| Much different from mine | E |
| - | |
| Should at that moment the full moon | F |
| Step forth upon the hill | G |
| And memories hard to bear at noon | F |
| By moonlight harder still | G |
| Form in the shadow of the trees mdash | C |
| Things that you could not spare | A |
| And live or so you thought yet these | H |
| All gone and you still there | A |
| - | |
| A man no longer what he was | I |
| Nor yet the thing he'd planned | J |
| The chilly apple from the grass | K |
| Warmed by your living hand mdash | C |
| - | |
| I think you will have need of tears | L |
| I think they will not flow | M |
| Supposing in ten thousand years | N |
| Men ache as they do now | B |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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