The Ripest Peach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDAA EEAA| The ripest peach is highest on the tree | A |
| And so her love beyond the reach of me | A |
| Is dearest in my sight Sweet breezes bow | B |
| Her heart down to me where I worship now | B |
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| She looms aloft where every eye may see | A |
| The ripest peach is highest on the tree | A |
| Such fruitage as her love I know alas | C |
| I may not reach here from the orchard grass | C |
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| I drink the sunshine showered past her lips | D |
| As roses drain the dewdrop as it drips | D |
| The ripest peach is highest on the tree | A |
| And so mine eyes gaze upward eagerly | A |
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| Why why do I not turn away in wrath | E |
| And pluck some heart here hanging in my path | E |
| Love's lower boughs bend with them but ah me | A |
| The ripest peach is highest on the tree | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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