The Orange Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDCD EFEF GAGA FHFH IEIE JAJA KLKL MNMN BABA| The young girl stood beside me | A |
| I Saw not what her young eyes could see | A |
| A light she said not of the sky | B |
| Lives somewhere in the Orange Tree | A |
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| Is it I said of east or west | C |
| The heartbeat of a luminous boy | D |
| Who with his faltering flute confessed | C |
| Only the edges of his joy | D |
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| Was he I said borne to the blue | E |
| In a mad escapade of Spring | F |
| Ere he could make a fond adieu | E |
| To his love in the blossoming | F |
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| Listen the young girl said There calls | G |
| No voice no music beats on me | A |
| But it is almost sound it falls | G |
| This evening on the Orange Tree | A |
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| Does he I said so fear the Spring | F |
| Ere the white sap too far can climb | H |
| See in the full gold evening | F |
| All happenings of the olden time | H |
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| Is he so goaded by the green | I |
| Does the compulsion of the dew | E |
| Make him unknowable but keen | I |
| Asking with beauty of the blue | E |
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| Listen the young girl said For all | J |
| Your hapless talk you fail to see | A |
| There is a light a step a call | J |
| This evening on the Orange Tree | A |
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| Is it said a waste of love | K |
| Imperishably old in pain | L |
| Moving as an affrighted dove | K |
| Under the sunlight or the rain | L |
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| Is it a fluttering heart that gave | M |
| Too willingly and was reviled | N |
| Is it the stammering at a grave | M |
| The last word of a little child | N |
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| Silence the young girl said Oh why | B |
| Why will you talk to weary me | A |
| Plague me no longer now for I | B |
| Am listening like the Orange Tree | A |
John Shaw Neilson
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