Of An Orchard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGGE HIJK| Good is an Orchard the Saint saith | A |
| To meditate on life and death | A |
| With a cool well a hive of bees | B |
| A hermit's grot below the trees | B |
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| Good is an Orchard very good | C |
| Though one should wear no monkish hood | C |
| Right good when Spring awakes her flute | D |
| And good in yellowing time of fruit | D |
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| Very good in the grass to lie | E |
| And see the network 'gainst the sky | E |
| A living lace of blue and green | F |
| And boughs that let the gold between | F |
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| The bees are types of souls that dwell | G |
| With honey in a quiet cell | G |
| The ripe fruit figures goldenly | G |
| The soul's perfection in God's eye | E |
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| Prayer and praise in a country home | H |
| Honey and fruit a man might come | I |
| Fed on such meats to walk abroad | J |
| And in his Orchard talk with God | K |
Katharine Tynan
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