A Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDEE FAGAAA HAHAII JKJLMM MNMNOO MPMPAAHere's a valentine nosegay for Mary | A |
Some of Spring's earliest flowers | B |
The ivy is green by the dairy | A |
And so are these laurels of ours | B |
Though the snow fell so deep and the winter was dreary | A |
The laurels are green and the sparrows are cheery | A |
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The snowdrops in bunches grow under the rose | C |
And aconites under the lilac like fairies | D |
The best in the bunches for Mary I chose | C |
Their looks are as sweet and as simple as Mary's | D |
The one will make Spring in my verses so bare | E |
The other set off as a braid thy dark hair | E |
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Pale primroses too at the old parlour end | F |
Have bloomed all the winter 'midst snows cold and dreary | A |
Where the lavender cotton kept off the cold wind | G |
Now to shine in my valentine nosegay for Mary | A |
And appear in my verses all Summer and be | A |
A memento of fondness and friendship for thee | A |
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Here's the crocus half opened that spreads into gold | H |
Like branches of sunbeams left there by a fairy | A |
I place them as such in these verses so cold | H |
But they'll bloom twice as bright in the presence of Mary | A |
These garden flowers crop't I will go to the field | I |
And see what the valley and pasture land yield | I |
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Here peeps the pale primrose from the skirts of the wild wood | J |
And violet blue 'neath the thorn on the green | K |
The wild flowers we plucked in the days of our childhood | J |
On the very same spot as no changes have been | L |
In the very same place where the sun kissed the leaves | M |
And the woodbine its branches of thorns interweaves | M |
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And here in the pasture all swarming with rushes | M |
Is a cowslip as blooming and forward as Spring | N |
And the pilewort like sunshine grows under the bushes | M |
While the chaffinch there sitting is trying to sing | N |
And the daisies are coming called stars of the earth | O |
To bring to the schoolboy his Springtime of mirth | O |
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Here then is the nosegay how simple it shines | M |
It speaks without words to the ear and the eye | P |
The flowers of the Spring are the best valentines | M |
They are young fair and simple and pleasingly shy | P |
That you may remain so and your love never vary | A |
I send you these flowers as a valentine Mary | A |
John Clare
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