Https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiAyYb1v_vP... The rhythm and diction Robert Frost uses in After Apple-Picking<span> develops the </span>theme<span> of the poem. Most of the poem has a smooth iambic rhythm, such as line two, "toward heaven still." </span>