The Apple Orchard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPN QRSK| Come let us watch the sun go down | A |
| and walk in twilight through the orchard's green | B |
| Does it not seem as if we had for long | C |
| collected saved and harbored within us | D |
| old memories To find releases and seek | E |
| new hopes remembering half forgotten joys | F |
| mingled with darkness coming from within | G |
| as we randomly voice our thoughts aloud | H |
| wandering beneath these harvest laden trees | I |
| reminiscent of Durer woodcuts branches | J |
| which bent under the fully ripened fruit | K |
| wait patiently trying to outlast to | L |
| serve another season's hundred days of toil | M |
| straining uncomplaining by not breaking | N |
| but succeeding even though the burden | O |
| should at times seem almost past endurance | P |
| Not to falter Not to be found wanting | N |
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| Thus must it be when willingly you strive | Q |
| throughout a long and uncomplaining life | R |
| committed to one goal to give yourself | S |
| And silently to grow and to bear fruit | K |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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