Apples And Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA FDFD GHGH IAIA| Dust in a cloud blinding weather | A |
| Drums that rattle and roar | B |
| A mother and daughter stood together | A |
| Beside their cottage door | B |
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| Mother the heavens are bright like brass | C |
| The dust is shaken high | D |
| With labouring breath the soldiers pass | C |
| Their lips are cracked and dry | D |
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| Mother I'll throw them apples down | E |
| I'll bring them pails of water | A |
| The mother turned with an angry frown | E |
| Holding back her daughter | A |
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| But mother see they faint with thirst | F |
| They march away to die | D |
| Ah sweet had I but known at first | F |
| Their throats are always dry | D |
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| There is no water can supply them | G |
| In western streams that flow | H |
| There is no fruit can satisfy them | G |
| On orchard trees that grow | H |
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| Once in my youth I gave poor fool | I |
| A soldier apples and water | A |
| So may I die before you cool | I |
| Your father's drouth my daughter | A |
Robert Graves
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