A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDEE FAGAAA HAHAII JKJLMM MNMNOO MPMPAA

Here's a valentine nosegay for MaryA
Some of Spring's earliest flowersB
The ivy is green by the dairyA
And so are these laurels of oursB
Though the snow fell so deep and the winter was drearyA
The laurels are green and the sparrows are cheeryA
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The snowdrops in bunches grow under the roseC
And aconites under the lilac like fairiesD
The best in the bunches for Mary I choseC
Their looks are as sweet and as simple as Mary'sD
The one will make Spring in my verses so bareE
The other set off as a braid thy dark hairE
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Pale primroses too at the old parlour endF
Have bloomed all the winter 'midst snows cold and drearyA
Where the lavender cotton kept off the cold windG
Now to shine in my valentine nosegay for MaryA
And appear in my verses all Summer and beA
A memento of fondness and friendship for theeA
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Here's the crocus half opened that spreads into goldH
Like branches of sunbeams left there by a fairyA
I place them as such in these verses so coldH
But they'll bloom twice as bright in the presence of MaryA
These garden flowers crop't I will go to the fieldI
And see what the valley and pasture land yieldI
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Here peeps the pale primrose from the skirts of the wild woodJ
And violet blue 'neath the thorn on the greenK
The wild flowers we plucked in the days of our childhoodJ
On the very same spot as no changes have beenL
In the very same place where the sun kissed the leavesM
And the woodbine its branches of thorns interweavesM
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And here in the pasture all swarming with rushesM
Is a cowslip as blooming and forward as SpringN
And the pilewort like sunshine grows under the bushesM
While the chaffinch there sitting is trying to singN
And the daisies are coming called stars of the earthO
To bring to the schoolboy his Springtime of mirthO
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Here then is the nosegay how simple it shinesM
It speaks without words to the ear and the eyeP
The flowers of the Spring are the best valentinesM
They are young fair and simple and pleasingly shyP
That you may remain so and your love never varyA
I send you these flowers as a valentine MaryA

John Clare



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