A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree - meaning Summary
Rain as Tiny Celebration
The poem describes a gentle rain as a small, enlivening celebration across a domestic landscape. Individual drops fall on an apple tree, roof, eaves and brook, and the speaker imagines them as pearls and necklaces. Nature responds playfully: birds sing more, sunshine removes its "hat," orchards glitter, breezes bathe in the joy, and the East signals the end of the festivity. The tone is observant and lightly whimsical, turning a commonplace shower into a communal, almost ceremonial moment shared by animate and inanimate parts of the scene.
Read Complete AnalysesA drop fell on the apple tree Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roa The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.
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