On Promising Fruitfulness Of A Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAADDEEFGAAAA H IIJKFGAALMAAFBNO| A comely sight indeed it is to see | A |
| A world of blossoms on an apple tree | A |
| Yet far more comely would this tree appear | B |
| If all its dainty blooms young apples were | C |
| But how much more might one upon it see | A |
| If all would hang there till they ripe should be | A |
| But most of all in beauty 'twould abound | D |
| If then none worm eaten should there be found | D |
| But we alas do commonly behold | E |
| Blooms fall apace if mornings be but cold | E |
| They too which hang till they young apples are | F |
| By blasting winds and vermin take despair | G |
| Store that do hang while almost ripe we see | A |
| By blust'ring winds are shaken from the tree | A |
| So that of many only some there be | A |
| That grow till they come to maturity | A |
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| Comparison | H |
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| This tree a perfect emblem is of those | I |
| Which God doth plant which in his garden grows | I |
| Its blasted blooms are motions unto good | J |
| Which chill affections do nip in the bud | K |
| Those little apples which yet blasted are | F |
| Show some good purposes no good fruits bear | G |
| Those spoiled by vermin are to let us see | A |
| How good attempts by bad thoughts ruin'd be | A |
| Those which the wind blows down while they are green | L |
| Show good works have by trials spoiled been | M |
| Those that abide while ripe upon the tree | A |
| Show in a good man some ripe fruit will be | A |
| Behold then how abortive some fruits are | F |
| Which at the first most promising appear | B |
| The frost the wind the worm with time doth show | N |
| There flows from much appearance works but few | O |
John Bunyan
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