The Planting Of The Apple-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADDA AEEFFAGGA AHHIIAJJA AKKLLAMMA ANNOPAQQA ARRSSATTA AJJGGALLA AUUVVAWXA ATTYYAZZA| Come let us plant the apple tree | A |
| Cleave the tough greensward with the spade | B |
| Wide let its hollow bed be made | B |
| There gently lay the roots and there | C |
| Sift the dark mould with kindly care | C |
| And press it o'er them tenderly | A |
| As round the sleeping infant's feet | D |
| We softly fold the cradle sheet | D |
| So plant we the apple tree | A |
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| What plant we in this apple tree | A |
| Buds which the breath of summer days | E |
| Shall lengthen into leafy sprays | E |
| Boughs where the thrush with crimson breast | F |
| Shall haunt and sing and hide her nest | F |
| We plant upon the sunny lea | A |
| A shadow for the noontide hour | G |
| A shelter from the summer shower | G |
| When we plant the apple tree | A |
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| What plant we in this apple tree | A |
| Sweets for a hundred flowery springs | H |
| To load the May wind's restless wings | H |
| When from the orchard row he pours | I |
| Its fragrance through our open doors | I |
| A world of blossoms for the bee | A |
| Flowers for the sick girl's silent room | J |
| For the glad infant sprigs of bloom | J |
| We plant with the apple tree | A |
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| What plant we in this apple tree | A |
| Fruits that shall swell in sunny June | K |
| And redden in the August noon | K |
| And drop when gentle airs come by | L |
| That fan the blue September sky | L |
| While children come with cries of glee | A |
| And seek them where the fragrant grass | M |
| Betrays their bed to those who pass | M |
| At the foot of the apple tree | A |
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| And when above this apple tree | A |
| The winter stars are quivering bright | N |
| And winds go howling through the night | N |
| Girls whose young eyes o'erflow with mirth | O |
| Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth | P |
| And guests in prouder homes shall see | A |
| Heaped with the grape of Cintra's vine | Q |
| And golden orange of the line | Q |
| The fruit of the apple tree | A |
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| The fruitage of this apple tree | A |
| Winds and our flag of stripe and star | R |
| Shall bear to coasts that lie afar | R |
| Where men shall wonder at the view | S |
| And ask in what fair groves they grew | S |
| And sojourners beyond the sea | A |
| Shall think of childhood's careless day | T |
| And long long hours of summer play | T |
| In the shade of the apple tree | A |
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| Each year shall give this apple tree | A |
| A broader flush of roseate bloom | J |
| A deeper maze of verdurous gloom | J |
| And loosen when the frost clouds lower | G |
| The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower | G |
| The years shall come and pass but we | A |
| Shall hear no longer where we lie | L |
| The summer's songs the autumn's sigh | L |
| In the boughs of the apple tree | A |
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| And time shall waste this apple tree | A |
| Oh when its aged branches throw | U |
| Thin shadows on the ground below | U |
| Shall fraud and force and iron will | V |
| Oppress the weak and helpless still | V |
| What shall the tasks of mercy be | A |
| Amid the toils the strifes the tears | W |
| Of those who live when length of years | X |
| Is wasting this little apple tree | A |
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| Who planted this old apple tree | A |
| The children of that distant day | T |
| Thus to some aged man shall say | T |
| And gazing on its mossy stem | Y |
| The gray haired man shall answer them | Y |
| A poet of the land was he | A |
| Born in the rude but good old times | Z |
| T is said he made some quaint old rhymes | Z |
| On planting the apple tree | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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