The Orchard And The Heath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EF GE HIHIH JKKKK LMLMM NONON KMCMK PMPMP QMQMQ RMRMR| I chanced upon an early walk to spy | A |
| A troop of children through an orchard gate | B |
| The boughs hung low the grass was high | A |
| They had but to lift hands or wait | B |
| For fruits to fill them fruits were all their sky | A |
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| They shouted running on from tree to tree | C |
| And played the game the wind plays on and round | D |
| 'Twas visible invisible glee | C |
| Pursuing and a fountain's sound | D |
| Of laughter spouted pattering fresh on me | C |
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| I could have watched them till the daylight fled | E |
| Their pretty bower made such a light of day | F |
| A small one tumbling sang 'Oh head ' | - |
| The rest to comfort her straightway | G |
| Seized on a branch and thumped down apples red | E |
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| The tiny creature flashing through green grass | H |
| And laughing with her feet and eyes among | I |
| Fresh apples while a little lass | H |
| Over as o'er breeze ripples hung | I |
| That sight I saw and passed as aliens pass | H |
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| My footpath left the pleasant farms and lanes | J |
| Soft cottage smoke straight cocks a crow gay flowers | K |
| Beyond the wheel ruts of the wains | K |
| Across a heath I walked for hours | K |
| And met its rival tenants rays and rains | K |
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| Still in my view mile distant firs appeared | L |
| When under a patched channel bank enriched | M |
| With foxglove whose late bells drooped seared | L |
| Behold a family had pitched | M |
| Their camp and labouring the low tent upreared | M |
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| Here too were many children quick to scan | N |
| A new thing coming swarthy cheeks white teeth | O |
| In many coloured rags they ran | N |
| Like iron runlets of the heath | O |
| Dispersed lay broth pot sticks and drinking can | N |
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| Three girls with shoulders like a boat at sea | K |
| Tipped sideways by the wave their clothing slid | M |
| From either ridge unequally | C |
| Lean swift and voluble bestrid | M |
| A starting point unfrocked to the bent knee | K |
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| They raced their brothers yelled them on and broke | P |
| In act to follow but as one they snuffed | M |
| Wood fumes and by the fire that spoke | P |
| Of provender its pale flame puffed | M |
| And rolled athwart dwarf furzes grey blue smoke | P |
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| Soon on the dark edge of a ruddier gleam | Q |
| The mother pot perusing all stretched flat | M |
| Paused for its bubbling up supreme | Q |
| A dog upright in circle sat | M |
| And oft his nose went with the flying steam | Q |
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| I turned and looked on heaven awhile where now | R |
| The moor faced sunset broadened with red light | M |
| Threw high aloft a golden bough | R |
| And seemed the desert of the night | M |
| Far down with mellow orchards to endow | R |
George Meredith
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