The Horologe Of The Fields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFEF GHGHEGEGIJIJ KLKLMNMNNONO PQPQRSRSTUTU VWVWXYXYZYZY A2B2A2C2D2C2D2EGEG E2QE2Q| Addressed to a Young Lady on seeing at the House of an | A |
| Acquaintance a magnificent French Timepiece | B |
| FOR her who owns this splendid toy | C |
| Where use with elegance unites | D |
| Still may its index point to joy | C |
| And moments wing'd with new delights | D |
| Sweet may resound each silver bell | E |
| And never quick returning chime | F |
| Seem in reproving notes to tell | E |
| Of hours mispent and murder'd time | F |
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| Tho' Fortune Emily deny | G |
| To us these splendid works of art | H |
| The woods the lawns the heaths supply | G |
| Lessons from Nature to the heart | H |
| In every copse and shelter'd dell | E |
| Unveil'd to the observant eye | G |
| Are faithful monitors who tell | E |
| How pass the hours and seasons by | G |
| The green robed children of the Spring | I |
| Will mark the periods as they pass | J |
| Mingle with leaves Time's feather'd wing | I |
| And bind with flowers his silent glass | J |
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| Mark where transparent waters glide | K |
| Soft flowing o'er their tranquil bed | L |
| There cradled on the dimpling tide | K |
| Nymph a rests her lovely head | L |
| But conscious of the earliest beam | M |
| She rises from her humid rest | N |
| And sees reflected in the stream | M |
| The virgin whiteness of her breast | N |
| Till the bright daystar to the west | N |
| Declines in Ocean's surge to lave | O |
| Then folded in her modest vest | N |
| She slumbers on the rocking wave | O |
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| See Hieracium's various tribe | P |
| Of plumy seed and radiate flowers | Q |
| The course of Time their blooms describe | P |
| And wake or sleep appointed hours | Q |
| Broad o'er its imbricated cup | R |
| The Goatsbeard spreads its golden rays | S |
| But shuts its cautious petals up | R |
| Retreating from the noon tide blaze | S |
| Pale as a pensive cloister'd nun | T |
| The Bethlem star her face unveils | U |
| When o'er the mountain peers the Sun | T |
| But shades it from the vesper gales | U |
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| Among the loose and arid sands | V |
| The humble Arenaria creeps | W |
| Slowly the purple star expands | V |
| But soon within its calyx sleeps | W |
| And those small bells so lightly ray'd | X |
| With young Aurora's rosy hue | Y |
| Are to the noon tide Sun display'd | X |
| But shut their plaits against the dew | Y |
| On upland slopes the shepherds mark | Z |
| The hour when as the dial true | Y |
| Cichorium to the towering Lark | Z |
| Lifts her soft eyes serenely blue | Y |
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| And thou 'Wee crimson tipped flower ' | - |
| Gatherest thy fringed mantle round | A2 |
| Thy bosom at the closing hour | B2 |
| When night drops bathe the turfy ground | A2 |
| Unlike Silene who declines | C2 |
| The garish noontide's blazing light | D2 |
| But when the evening crescent shines | C2 |
| Gives all her sweetness to the night | D2 |
| Thus in each flower and simple bell | E |
| That in our path untrodden lie | G |
| Are sweet remembrancers who tell | E |
| How fast the winged moments fly | G |
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| Time will steal on with ceaseless pace | E2 |
| Yet lose we not the fleeting hours | Q |
| Who still their fairy footsteps trace | E2 |
| As light they dance among the flowers | Q |
Charlotte Smith
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