Apple Lay



I'm  being followed by an apple
I feel like I've been picked
I wonder if it rolls on by
I'll have a bushel wit

I try to say it isn't me
who sees it as it falls
For me; I'm certain love is me
and gravity can't call

So on I go remembering when
I saw it light the way
And say this apple isn't me
and kick it where it lay

About this poem

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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Written on March 23, 2022

Submitted by Poetbird on March 24, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX AXAX XBAB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 319
Words 74
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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