The first four lines of the poem are an included rhyme, evocative of the beginning of a Petrarchan sonnet. Since Petrarchan sonnets traditionally discuss themes of love, whether unattainable or perfect, this rhyme scheme draws a comparison between the character's loss of inspiration and a lost love, thus increasing the depth of his struggle. The fact that it is not a separate quatrain, as it would be in a Petrarchan sonnet, represents the person's inevitable flow from the thought of consciousness to a confused, dream-like state. After the opening lines there is a rhyming couplet that reads: "Apples, I haven't picked a few branches / But now I'm done with the apple picking." (535) This couplet brings together the concept of his dismissal because he did not pick all the apples in the orchard and therefore did not achieve his goal of a “large harvest”..”