The Apple Orchard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPN QRSKCome 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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