A Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE FCFC| I lost the love of heaven above | A |
| I spurned the lust of earth below | B |
| I felt the sweets of fancied love | A |
| And hell itself my only foe | B |
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| I lost earth's joys but felt the glow | B |
| Of heaven's flame abound in me | C |
| Till loveliness and I did grow | B |
| The bard of immortality | C |
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| I loved but woman fell away | D |
| I hid me from her faded fame | E |
| I snatched the sun's eternal ray | D |
| And wrote till earth was but a name | E |
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| In every language upon earth | F |
| On every shore o'er every sea | C |
| I give my name immortal birth | F |
| And kept my spirit with the free | C |
John Clare
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