Comfort Of The Fields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEEDC CFFCGFFGCGC FCCFHCCHIIH CJJCKJJKLKL CLLCKCCKMKM CINCJJFJJFWhat would'st thou have for easement after grief | A |
When the rude world hath used thee with despite | B |
And care sits at thine elbow day and night | B |
Filching thy pleasures like a subtle thief | A |
To me when life besets me in such wise | C |
'Tis sweetest to break forth to drop the chain | D |
And grasp the freedom of this pleasant earth | E |
To roam in idleness and sober mirth | E |
Through summer airs and summer lands and drain | D |
The comfort of wide fields unto tired eyes | C |
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By hills and waters farms and solitudes | C |
To wander by the day with wilful feet | F |
Through fielded valleys wide with yellowing wheat | F |
Along gray roads that run between deep woods | C |
Murmurous and cool through hallowed slopes of pine | G |
Where the long daylight dreams unpierced unstirred | F |
And only the rich throated thrush is heard | F |
By lonely forest brooks that froth and shine | G |
In bouldered crannies buried in the hills | C |
By broken beeches tangled with wild vine | G |
And log strewn rivers murmurous with mills | C |
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In upland pastures sown with gold and sweet | F |
With the keen perfume of the ripening grass | C |
Where wings of birds and filmy shadows pass | C |
Spread thick as stars with shining marguerite | F |
To haunt old fences overgrown with brier | H |
Muffled in vines and hawthorns and wild cherries | C |
Rank poisonous ivies red bunched elderberries | C |
And pied blossoms to the heart's desire | H |
Gray mullein towering into yellow bloom | I |
Pink tasseled milkweed breathing dense perfume | I |
And swarthy vervain tipped with violet fire | H |
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To hear at eve the bleating of far flocks | C |
The mud hen's whistle from the marsh at morn | J |
To skirt with deafened ears and brain o'erborne | J |
Some foam filled rapid charging down its rocks | C |
With iron roar of waters far away | K |
Across wide reeded meres pensive with noon | J |
To hear the querulous outcry of the loon | J |
To lie among deep rocks and watch all day | K |
On liquid heights the snowy clouds melt by | L |
Or hear from wood capped mountain brows the jay | K |
Pierce the bright morning with his jibing cry | L |
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To feast on summer sounds the jolted wains | C |
The thrasher humming from the farm near by | L |
The prattling cricket's intermittent cry | L |
The locust's rattle from the sultry lanes | C |
Or in the shadow of some oaken spray | K |
To watch as through a mist of light and dreams | C |
The far off hay fields where the dusty teams | C |
Drive round and round the lessening squares of hay | K |
And hear upon the wind now loud now low | M |
With drowsy cadence half a summer's day | K |
The clatter of the reapers come and go | M |
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Far violet hills horizons filmed with showers | C |
The murmur of cool streams the forest's gloom | I |
The voices of the breathing grass the hum | N |
Of ancient gardens overbanked with flowers | C |
Thus with a smile as golden as the dawn | J |
And cool fair fingers radiantly divine | J |
The mighty mother brings us in her hand | F |
For all tired eyes and foreheads pinched and wan | J |
Her restful cup her beaker of bright wine | J |
Drink and be filled and ye shall understand | F |
Archibald Lampman
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