The Crossed Apple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NGNG FOFO| I ve come to give you fruit from out my orchard | A |
| Of wide report | B |
| I have trees there that bear me many apples | C |
| Of every sort | B |
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| Clear streaked red and russet green and golden | D |
| Sour and sweet | E |
| This apple s from a tree yet unbeholden | D |
| Where two kinds meet | E |
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| So that this side is red without a dapple | F |
| And this side s hue | G |
| Is clear and snowy It s a lovely apple | F |
| It is for you | G |
| - | |
| Within are five black pips as big as peas | H |
| As you will find | I |
| Potent to breed you five great apple trees | H |
| Of varying kind | I |
| - | |
| To breed you wood for fire leaves for shade | J |
| Apples for sauce | K |
| Oh this is a good apple for a maid | J |
| It is a cross | K |
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| Fine on the finer so the flesh is tight | L |
| And grained like silk | M |
| Sweet Burning gave the red side and the white | L |
| Is Meadow Milk | M |
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| Eat it and you will taste more than the fruit | N |
| The blossom too | G |
| The sun the air the darkness at the root | N |
| The rain the dew | G |
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| The earth we came to and the time we flee | F |
| The fire and the breast | O |
| I claim the white part maiden that s for me | F |
| You take the rest | O |
Louise Bogan
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