Helpstone Green. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJDKDK BLBLMNMN OAOAPQPQ POPOHOHO PIPIRSRT ONONUVWVYe injur'd fields ye once were gay | A |
When nature's hand display'd | B |
Long waving rows of willows grey | A |
And clumps of hawthorn shade | B |
But now alas your hawthorn bowers | C |
All desolate we see | D |
The spoilers' axe their shade devours | C |
And cuts down every tree | D |
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Not trees alone have own'd their force | E |
Whole woods beneath them bow'd | F |
They turn'd the winding rivulet's course | E |
And all thy pastures plough'd | F |
To shrub or tree throughout thy fields | G |
They no compassion show | H |
The uplifted axe no mercy yields | G |
But strikes a fatal blow | H |
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Whene'er I muse along the plain | I |
And mark where once they grew | J |
Remembrance wakes her busy train | I |
And brings past scenes to view | J |
The well known brook the favourite tree | D |
In fancy's eye appear | K |
And next that pleasant green I see | D |
That green for ever dear | K |
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O'er its green hills I've often stray'd | B |
In childhood's happy hour | L |
Oft sought the nest along the shade | B |
And gather'd many a flower | L |
And there with playmates often join'd | M |
In fresher sports to plan | N |
But now increasing years have coin'd | M |
Those children into man | N |
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The green s gone too ah lovely scene | O |
No more the kingcup gay | A |
Shall shine in yellow o'er the green | O |
And shed its golden ray | A |
No more the herdsman's early call | P |
Shall bring the cows to feed | Q |
No more the milkmaid's evening bawl | P |
In Come mull tones succeed | Q |
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Both milkmaid's shouts and herdsman's call | P |
Have vanish'd with the green | O |
The kingcups yellow shades and all | P |
Shall never more be seen | O |
But the thick cultur'd tribes that grow | H |
Will so efface the scene | O |
That after times will hardly know | H |
It ever was a green | O |
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Farewel thou favourite spot farewel | P |
Since every effort's vain | I |
All can do is still to tell | P |
Of thy delightful plain | I |
But that joy's short increasing years | R |
That did my youth presage | S |
Will now as each new day appears | R |
Bring on declining age | T |
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Reflection pierces deadly keen | O |
While I the moral scan | N |
As are the change of the green | O |
So is the life of man | N |
Youth brings age with faltering tongue | U |
That does the exit crave | V |
There's one short scene presents the throng | W |
Another shows the grave | V |
John Clare
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