The Apple-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF| I saw the archangels in my apple tree last night | A |
| I saw them like great birds in the starlight | A |
| Purple and burning blue crimson and shining white | A |
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| And each to each they tossed an apple to and fro | B |
| And once I heard their laughter gay and low | B |
| And yet I felt no wonder that it should be so | B |
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| But when the apple came one time to Michael's lap | C |
| I heard him say The mysteries that enwrap | C |
| The earth and fill the heavens can be read here mayhap | C |
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| Then Gabriel spoke I praise the deed the hidden thing | D |
| The beauty of the blossom of the spring | D |
| I praise cried Raphael Uriel The wise leaves I sing | D |
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| And Michael I will praise the fruit perfected round | E |
| Full of the love of God herein being bound | E |
| His mercies gathered from the sun and rain and ground | E |
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| So sang they till a small wind through the branches stirred | F |
| And spoke of coming dawn and at its word | F |
| Each fled away to heaven winged like a bird | F |
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