Helpstone Green. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJDKDK BLBLMNMN OAOAPQPQ POPOHOHO PIPIRSRT ONONUVWV

Ye injur'd fields ye once were gayA
When nature's hand display'dB
Long waving rows of willows greyA
And clumps of hawthorn shadeB
But now alas your hawthorn bowersC
All desolate we seeD
The spoilers' axe their shade devoursC
And cuts down every treeD
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Not trees alone have own'd their forceE
Whole woods beneath them bow'dF
They turn'd the winding rivulet's courseE
And all thy pastures plough'dF
To shrub or tree throughout thy fieldsG
They no compassion showH
The uplifted axe no mercy yieldsG
But strikes a fatal blowH
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Whene'er I muse along the plainI
And mark where once they grewJ
Remembrance wakes her busy trainI
And brings past scenes to viewJ
The well known brook the favourite treeD
In fancy's eye appearK
And next that pleasant green I seeD
That green for ever dearK
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O'er its green hills I've often stray'dB
In childhood's happy hourL
Oft sought the nest along the shadeB
And gather'd many a flowerL
And there with playmates often join'dM
In fresher sports to planN
But now increasing years have coin'dM
Those children into manN
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The green s gone too ah lovely sceneO
No more the kingcup gayA
Shall shine in yellow o'er the greenO
And shed its golden rayA
No more the herdsman's early callP
Shall bring the cows to feedQ
No more the milkmaid's evening bawlP
In Come mull tones succeedQ
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Both milkmaid's shouts and herdsman's callP
Have vanish'd with the greenO
The kingcups yellow shades and allP
Shall never more be seenO
But the thick cultur'd tribes that growH
Will so efface the sceneO
That after times will hardly knowH
It ever was a greenO
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Farewel thou favourite spot farewelP
Since every effort's vainI
All can do is still to tellP
Of thy delightful plainI
But that joy's short increasing yearsR
That did my youth presageS
Will now as each new day appearsR
Bring on declining ageT
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Reflection pierces deadly keenO
While I the moral scanN
As are the change of the greenO
So is the life of manN
Youth brings age with faltering tongueU
That does the exit craveV
There's one short scene presents the throngW
Another shows the graveV

John Clare



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