Good-bye, And Keep Cold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDCEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMMNN| This saying good bye on the edge of the dark | A |
| And cold to an orchard so young in the bark | A |
| Reminds me of all that can happen to harm | B |
| An orchard away at the end of the farm | B |
| All winter cut off by a hill from the house | C |
| I don't want it girdled by rabbit and mouse | C |
| I don't want it dreamily nibbled for browse | D |
| By deer and I don't want it budded by grouse | C |
| If certain it wouldn't be idle to call | E |
| I'd summon grouse rabbit and deer to the wall | E |
| And warn them away with a stick for a gun | F |
| I don't want it stirred by the heat of the sun | F |
| We made it secure against being I hope | G |
| By setting it out on a northerly slope | G |
| No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm | H |
| But one thing about it it mustn't get warm | H |
| How often already you've had to be told | I |
| Keep cold young orchard Good bye and keep cold | I |
| Dread fifty above more than fifty below | J |
| I have to be gone for a season or so | J |
| My business awhile is with different trees | K |
| Less carefully nourished less fruitful than these | K |
| And such as is done to their wood with an axe | L |
| Maples and birches and tamaracks | L |
| I wish I could promise to lie in the night | M |
| And think of an orchard's arboreal plight | M |
| When slowly and nobody comes with a light | M |
| Its heart sinks lower under the sod | N |
| But something has to be left to God | N |
Robert Frost
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