The Apple Boughs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Round apples burning upon the apple boughs | A |
| As the evening flush withdraws | B |
| Perfect and satiate earth's completed vows | A |
| In a stillness nothing flaws | B |
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| You burn in the branching golden green you float | C |
| In humid blue immersed | D |
| Strange as if gleaming out of an air remote | C |
| Where unknown tongues conversed | D |
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| Coloured and orbed by the hours in motionless poise | E |
| You are timed and rounded and still | F |
| But in me is the want that springs creates destroys | E |
| The want no hours fulfil | F |
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| Stirred but a wing stole but a tremor of light | G |
| From the cloud and my heart were aware | H |
| That its will is to be with the spirit whose joy is flight | G |
| I have tasted a timeless air | H |
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| Spiritual laughter promises all things free | I |
| The heart has a heaven to spend | J |
| Where the mind imagines its own perfection to me | I |
| Is a prison a date and an end | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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