The Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Think 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 |
| - | |
| 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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