The Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJKThink me not unkind and rude | A |
That I walk alone in grove and glen | B |
I go to the god of the wood | C |
To fetch his word to men | B |
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Tax not my sloth that I | D |
Fold my arms beside the brook | E |
Each cloud that floated in the sky | D |
Writes a letter in my book | E |
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Chide me not laborious band | F |
For the idle flowers I brought | G |
Every aster in my hand | F |
Goes home loaded with a thought | G |
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There was never mystery | H |
But 'tis figured in the flowers | I |
Was never secret history | H |
But birds tell it in the bowers | I |
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One harvest from thy field | J |
Homeward brought the oxen strong | K |
A second crop thine acres yield | J |
Which I gather in a song | K |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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