The Apple-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE DDGHHG IIJGGJ DDKLLK

Old John had an apple tree healthy and greenA
Which bore the best codlins that ever were seenA
So juicy so mellow and redB
And when they were ripe he disposed of his storeC
To children or any who pass'd by his doorC
To buy him a morsel of breadB
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Little Dick his next neighbour one often might seeD
With longing eye viewing this fine apple treeD
And wishing a codlin might fallE
One day as he stood in the heat of the sunF
He began thinking whether he might not take oneF
And then he look'd over the wallE
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And as he again cast his eye on the treeD
He said to himself 'Oh how nice they would beD
So cool and refreshing to dayG
The tree is so full and one only I'll takeH
And John cannot see if I give it a shakeH
And nobody is in the wayG
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But stop little boy take your hand from the boughI
Remember though John cannot see you just nowI
And no one to chide you is nighJ
There is One who by night just as well as by dayG
Can see all you do and can hear all you sayG
From his glorious throne in the skyJ
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O then little boy come away from the treeD
Lest tempted to this wicked act you should beD
'Twere better to starve than to stealK
For the great GOD who even through darkness can lookL
Writes down every crime we commit in His bookL
Nor forgets what we try to concealK

Jane Taylor



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