Comfort Of The Fields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEEDC CFFCGFFGCGC FCCFHCCHIIH CJJCKJJKLKL CLLCKCCKMKM CINCJJFJJF

What would'st thou have for easement after griefA
When the rude world hath used thee with despiteB
And care sits at thine elbow day and nightB
Filching thy pleasures like a subtle thiefA
To me when life besets me in such wiseC
'Tis sweetest to break forth to drop the chainD
And grasp the freedom of this pleasant earthE
To roam in idleness and sober mirthE
Through summer airs and summer lands and drainD
The comfort of wide fields unto tired eyesC
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By hills and waters farms and solitudesC
To wander by the day with wilful feetF
Through fielded valleys wide with yellowing wheatF
Along gray roads that run between deep woodsC
Murmurous and cool through hallowed slopes of pineG
Where the long daylight dreams unpierced unstirredF
And only the rich throated thrush is heardF
By lonely forest brooks that froth and shineG
In bouldered crannies buried in the hillsC
By broken beeches tangled with wild vineG
And log strewn rivers murmurous with millsC
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In upland pastures sown with gold and sweetF
With the keen perfume of the ripening grassC
Where wings of birds and filmy shadows passC
Spread thick as stars with shining margueriteF
To haunt old fences overgrown with brierH
Muffled in vines and hawthorns and wild cherriesC
Rank poisonous ivies red bunched elderberriesC
And pied blossoms to the heart's desireH
Gray mullein towering into yellow bloomI
Pink tasseled milkweed breathing dense perfumeI
And swarthy vervain tipped with violet fireH
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To hear at eve the bleating of far flocksC
The mud hen's whistle from the marsh at mornJ
To skirt with deafened ears and brain o'erborneJ
Some foam filled rapid charging down its rocksC
With iron roar of waters far awayK
Across wide reeded meres pensive with noonJ
To hear the querulous outcry of the loonJ
To lie among deep rocks and watch all dayK
On liquid heights the snowy clouds melt byL
Or hear from wood capped mountain brows the jayK
Pierce the bright morning with his jibing cryL
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To feast on summer sounds the jolted wainsC
The thrasher humming from the farm near byL
The prattling cricket's intermittent cryL
The locust's rattle from the sultry lanesC
Or in the shadow of some oaken sprayK
To watch as through a mist of light and dreamsC
The far off hay fields where the dusty teamsC
Drive round and round the lessening squares of hayK
And hear upon the wind now loud now lowM
With drowsy cadence half a summer's dayK
The clatter of the reapers come and goM
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Far violet hills horizons filmed with showersC
The murmur of cool streams the forest's gloomI
The voices of the breathing grass the humN
Of ancient gardens overbanked with flowersC
Thus with a smile as golden as the dawnJ
And cool fair fingers radiantly divineJ
The mighty mother brings us in her handF
For all tired eyes and foreheads pinched and wanJ
Her restful cup her beaker of bright wineJ
Drink and be filled and ye shall understandF

Archibald Lampman



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