Strange Fruit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEEFFGGHHEE IIFFIIJJKLMM| This year the grain is heavy ripe | A |
| The apple shows a ruddier stripe | A |
| Never berries so profuse | B |
| Blackened with so sweet a juice | B |
| On brambly hedges summer dyed | C |
| The yellow leaves begin to glide | C |
| But Earth in careless lap ful treasures | D |
| Pledge of over brimming measures | D |
| As if some rich unwonted zest | E |
| Stirred prodigal within her breast | E |
| And now while plenty's left uncared | E |
| The fruit unplucked the sickle spared | E |
| Where men go forth to waste and spill | F |
| Toiling to burn destroy and kill | F |
| Lo also side by side with these | G |
| Beast hungers ravening miseries | G |
| The heart of man has brought to birth | H |
| Splendours richer than his earth | H |
| Now in the thunder hour of fate | E |
| Each one is kinder to his mate | E |
| The surly smile the hard forbear | I |
| There's help and hope for all to share | I |
| And sudden visions of goodwill | F |
| Transcending all the scope of ill | F |
| Like a glory of rare weather | I |
| Link us in common light together | I |
| A clearness of the cleansing sun | J |
| Where none's alone and all are one | J |
| And touching each a priceless pain | K |
| We find our own true hearts again | L |
| No more the easy masks deceive | M |
| We give we dare and we believe | M |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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