The Apple-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE DDGHHG IIJGGJ DDKLLK| Old John had an apple tree healthy and green | A |
| Which bore the best codlins that ever were seen | A |
| So juicy so mellow and red | B |
| And when they were ripe he disposed of his store | C |
| To children or any who pass'd by his door | C |
| To buy him a morsel of bread | B |
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| Little Dick his next neighbour one often might see | D |
| With longing eye viewing this fine apple tree | D |
| And wishing a codlin might fall | E |
| One day as he stood in the heat of the sun | F |
| He began thinking whether he might not take one | F |
| And then he look'd over the wall | E |
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| And as he again cast his eye on the tree | D |
| He said to himself 'Oh how nice they would be | D |
| So cool and refreshing to day | G |
| The tree is so full and one only I'll take | H |
| And John cannot see if I give it a shake | H |
| And nobody is in the way | G |
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| But stop little boy take your hand from the bough | I |
| Remember though John cannot see you just now | I |
| And no one to chide you is nigh | J |
| There is One who by night just as well as by day | G |
| Can see all you do and can hear all you say | G |
| From his glorious throne in the sky | J |
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| O then little boy come away from the tree | D |
| Lest tempted to this wicked act you should be | D |
| 'Twere better to starve than to steal | K |
| For the great GOD who even through darkness can look | L |
| Writes down every crime we commit in His book | L |
| Nor forgets what we try to conceal | K |
Jane Taylor
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