diff --git a/src/Serilog/Events/MessageTemplate.cs b/src/Serilog/Events/MessageTemplate.cs
index ddd618e62..2e352acdb 100644
--- a/src/Serilog/Events/MessageTemplate.cs
+++ b/src/Serilog/Events/MessageTemplate.cs
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ public class MessageTemplate
         /// </summary>
         public static MessageTemplate Empty { get; } = new(Enumerable.Empty<MessageTemplateToken>());
 
-        readonly MessageTemplateToken[] _tokens;
-
         /// <summary>
         /// Construct a message template using manually-defined text and property tokens.
         /// </summary>
@@ -59,9 +57,9 @@ public MessageTemplate(IEnumerable<MessageTemplateToken> tokens)
         public MessageTemplate(string text, IEnumerable<MessageTemplateToken> tokens)
         {
             Text = text ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(text));
-            _tokens = (tokens ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(tokens))).ToArray();
+            TokenArray = (tokens ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(tokens))).ToArray();
 
-            var propertyTokens = GetElementsOfTypeToArray<PropertyToken>(_tokens);
+            var propertyTokens = GetElementsOfTypeToArray<PropertyToken>(TokenArray);
             if (propertyTokens.Length != 0)
             {
                 var allPositional = true;
@@ -119,9 +117,9 @@ static TResult[] GetElementsOfTypeToArray<TResult>(MessageTemplateToken[] tokens
         /// <summary>
         /// The tokens parsed from the template.
         /// </summary>
-        public IEnumerable<MessageTemplateToken> Tokens => _tokens;
+        public IEnumerable<MessageTemplateToken> Tokens => TokenArray;
 
-        internal MessageTemplateToken[] TokenArray => _tokens;
+        internal MessageTemplateToken[] TokenArray { get; }
 
         internal PropertyToken[]? NamedProperties { get; }
 
diff --git a/src/Serilog/Parsing/PropertyToken.cs b/src/Serilog/Parsing/PropertyToken.cs
index 295d5a062..2953b0d7c 100644
--- a/src/Serilog/Parsing/PropertyToken.cs
+++ b/src/Serilog/Parsing/PropertyToken.cs
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ namespace Serilog.Parsing
     /// </summary>
     public sealed class PropertyToken : MessageTemplateToken
     {
-        readonly string _rawText;
         readonly int? _position;
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ public PropertyToken(string propertyName, string rawText, string? format = null,
             PropertyName = propertyName ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(propertyName));
             Format = format;
             Destructuring = destructuring;
-            _rawText = rawText ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(rawText));
+            RawText = rawText ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(rawText));
             Alignment = alignment;
 
             if (int.TryParse(PropertyName, NumberStyles.None, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out var position) &&
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ public PropertyToken(string propertyName, string rawText, string? format = null,
         /// <summary>
         /// The token's length.
         /// </summary>
-        public override int Length => _rawText.Length;
+        public override int Length => RawText.Length;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Render the token to the output.
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@ public override void Render(IReadOnlyDictionary<string, LogEventPropertyValue> p
         /// </summary>
         public bool IsPositional => _position.HasValue;
 
-        internal string RawText => _rawText;
+        internal string RawText { get; }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Try to get the integer value represented by the property name.
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ public override bool Equals(object? obj)
                 pt.Destructuring == Destructuring &&
                 pt.Format == Format &&
                 pt.PropertyName == PropertyName &&
-                pt._rawText == _rawText;
+                pt.RawText == RawText;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -169,6 +168,6 @@ public override bool Equals(object? obj)
         /// A string that represents the current object.
         /// </returns>
         /// <filterpriority>2</filterpriority>
-        public override string ToString() => _rawText;
+        public override string ToString() => RawText;
     }
 }