Distant Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBD EBEB FGFG BCBD BHBH BIBI HBHB BIBI JBJB BHKH LMLD| What is there in those distant hills | A |
| My fancy longs to see | B |
| That many a mood of joy instils | B |
| Say what can fancy be | B |
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| Do old oaks thicken all the woods | B |
| With weeds and brakes as here | C |
| Does common water make the floods | B |
| That's common everywhere | D |
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| Is grass the green that clothes the ground | E |
| Are springs the common springs | B |
| Daisies and cowslips dropping round | E |
| Are such the flowers she brings | B |
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| Are cottages of mud and stone | F |
| By valley wood and glen | G |
| And their calm dwellers little known | F |
| Men and but common men | G |
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| That drive afield with carts and ploughs | B |
| Such men are common here | C |
| And pastoral maidens milking cows | B |
| Are dwelling everywhere | D |
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| If so my fancy idly clings | B |
| To notions far away | H |
| And longs to roam for common things | B |
| All round her every day | H |
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| Right idle would the journey be | B |
| To leave one's home so far | I |
| And see the moon I now can see | B |
| And every little star | I |
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| And have they there a night and day | H |
| And common counted hours | B |
| And do they see so far away | H |
| This very moon of ours | B |
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| I mark him climb above the trees | B |
| With one small comrade star | I |
| And think me in my reveries | B |
| He cannot shine so far | I |
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| The poets in the tales they tell | J |
| And with their happy powers | B |
| Have made lands where their fancies dwell | J |
| Seem better lands than ours | B |
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| Why need I sigh far hills to see | B |
| If grass is their array | H |
| While here the little paths go through | K |
| The greenest every day | H |
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| Such fancies fill the restless mind | L |
| At once to cheat and cheer | M |
| With thought and semblance undefined | L |
| Nowhere and everywhere | D |
John Clare
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