Undecaying Fruit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK HLHL MNMN OPOP| Doomed to decay are all things here | A |
| Whate'er their form or worth | B |
| Color and beauty disappear | C |
| Or turn to mother earth | B |
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| The luscious fruits which please the taste | D |
| And please the eye as well | E |
| Sometimes reduced to rot and waste | D |
| Ere from the tree they fell | E |
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| Some gathered with a gentle hand | F |
| And stored away with care | G |
| To serve a place in banquet grand | F |
| Some favorite peach or pear | G |
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| Is found diseased in skin and core | H |
| And loathsome to the sight | I |
| When 'tis too late to gather more | H |
| And comes the festal night | I |
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| So is it with all earthly joy | J |
| It pleases for a time | K |
| As toy may please a growing boy | J |
| Though costing but a dime | K |
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| But soon he tires and asks for more | H |
| Appropriate to his age | L |
| So though a man may higher soar | H |
| And greater aims engage | L |
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| His active mind he like the child | M |
| Soon looks for something new | N |
| Too oft are men by this beguiled | M |
| And fail to find the true | N |
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| But he who goes to Christ for rest | O |
| Finds fruit that ne'er decays | P |
| He sups with Christ as welcome guest | O |
| And glory crowns his days | P |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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