Apple-blossoms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG HBHBIBIB EJEJAJAJ| Underneath an apple tree | A |
| Sat a maiden and her lover | B |
| And the thoughts within her he | A |
| Yearned in silence to discover | B |
| Round them danced the sunbeams bright | C |
| Green the grass lawn stretched before them | D |
| While the apple blossoms white | C |
| Hung in rich profusion o'er them | D |
| - | |
| Naught within her eyes he read | E |
| That would tell her mind unto him | F |
| Though their light he after said | E |
| Quivered swiftly through and through him | F |
| Till at last his heart burst free | A |
| From the prayer with which 'twas laden | G |
| And he said When wilt thou be | A |
| Mine for evermore fair maiden | G |
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| When said she the breeze of May | H |
| With white flakes our heads shall cover | B |
| I will be thy brideling gay | H |
| Thou shall be my husband lover | B |
| How said he in sorrow bowed | I |
| Can I hope such hopeful weather | B |
| Breeze of May and Winter's cloud | I |
| Do not often fly together | B |
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| Quickly as the words he said | E |
| From the west a wind came sighing | J |
| And on each uncovered head | E |
| Sent the apple blossoms flying | J |
| 'Flakes of white ' thou'rt mine said he | A |
| Sooner than thy wish or knowing | J |
| Nay I heard the breeze quoth she | A |
| When in yonder forest blowing | J |
Will Carleton
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