The Fruit-gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEBEFFFGG HIIJH KLMLMKKNO| Last night just as the tints of autumn's sky | A |
| Of sunset faded from our hills and streams | B |
| I sat vague listening lapped in twilight dreams | B |
| To the leaf's rustle and the cricket's cry | A |
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| Then like that basket flush with summer fruit | C |
| Dropped by the angels at the Prophet's foot | D |
| Came unannounced a gift of clustered sweetness | E |
| Full orbed and glowing with the prisoned beams | B |
| Of summery suns and rounded to completeness | E |
| By kisses of the south wind and the dew | F |
| Thrilled with a glad surprise methought I knew | F |
| The pleasure of the homeward turning Jew | F |
| When Eshcol's clusters on his shoulders lay | G |
| Dropping their sweetness on his desert way | G |
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| I said 'This fruit beseems no world of sin | H |
| Its parent vine rooted in Paradise | I |
| O'ercrept the wall and never paid the price | I |
| Of the great mischief an ambrosial tree | J |
| Eden's exotic somehow smuggled in | H |
| To keep the thorns and thistles company ' | - |
| Perchance our frail sad mother plucked in haste | K |
| A single vine slip as she passed the gate | L |
| Where the dread sword alternate paled and burned | M |
| And the stern angel pitying her fate | L |
| Forgave the lovely trespasser and turned | M |
| Aside his face of fire and thus the waste | K |
| And fallen world hath yet its annual taste | K |
| Of primal good to prove of sin the cost | N |
| And show by one gleaned ear the mighty harvest lost | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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