Holywell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Nature thou accept the songA
To thee the simple lines belongA
Inspir'd as brushing hill and dellB
I stroll'd the way to HolywellB
Though 'neath young April's watery skyC
The sun gleam'd warm and roads were dryC
And though the valleys bush and treeD
Still naked stood yet on the leaD
A flush of green and fresh'ning glowB
In melting patches 'gan to showB
That swelling buds would soon againE
In summer's livery bless the plainF
The thrushes too 'gan clear their throatsG
And got by heart some two 'r three notesG
Of their intended summer songA
To cheer me as I stroll'd alongA
The wild heath triumph'd in its scenesH
Of goss and ling's perpetual greensH
And just to say that spring was comeI
The violet left its woodland homeJ
And hermit like from storms and windK
Sought the best shelter it could findK
'Neath long grass banks with feeble powersL
Peeping faintly purple flowersL
While oft unhous'd from beds of lingM
The fluskering pheasant took to wingM
And bobbing rabbits wild and shyC
Their white tails glancing on the eyeC
Just prick'd their long ears list'ning roundN
And sought their coverts under groundN
The heath was left and then at willB
A road swept gently round the hillB
From whose high crown as soodling byC
A distant prospect cheer'd my eyeC
Of closes green and fallows brownO
And distant glimpse of cot and townO
And steeple beck'ning on the sightP
By morning sun beams painted whiteP
And darksome woods with shadings sweetQ
To make the landscape round completeQ
And distant waters glist'ning byC
As if the ground were patch'd with skyC
While on the blue horizon's lineR
The far off things did dimly shineR
Which wild conjecture only seesS
And fancy moulds to clouds and treesS
Thinking if thither she could flyC
She'd find the close of earth and skyC
But as we turn to look againE
On nearer objects wood and plainF
So truths than fiction lovelier seemT
One warms as wak'ning from a dreamT
From covert hedge on either sideU
The blackbirds flutter'd terrifiedU
Mistaking me for pilfering boyV
That doth too oft their nests destroyV
And prink prink prink they took to wingM
In snugger shades to build and singM
From tufted grass or bush the hareW
Oft sprung from her endanger'd lairW
Surprise was startled on her routX
So near one's feet she bolted outX
The sun each tree top mounted o'erY
And got church steeple height or moreZ
And as I soodled on and onA2
The ground was warm to look uponA2
it e'en invited one to restB2
And have a nap upon its breastB2
But thought upon my journey's endC2
Where doubtful fancies did dependC2
Urg'd on my lazy feet to roamJ
Like truant school boy kept from homeJ
I ope'd each gate with idle swingM
And stood to listen ploughmen singM
While cracking whip and jingling gearsD2
Recall'd the toils of boyish yearsD2
When like to them I took my roundsE2
O'er elting moulds of fallow groundsE2
With feet nigh shoeless paddling throughF2
The bitterest blasts that ever blewF2
And napless beaver weather'd brownO
That want oft wore without its crownO
A poor unfriended ragged boyV
Prest ere a child with man's employV
'Tis past 'tis gone in musings lostG2
So thought I leaning o'er the postH2
And even jump'd with joy to seeD
Kind fate so highly favour meD
To clear the storms of boyish hoursL
And manhood's opening strew with flowersL
To bid such hopes man's summer blowB
As boy's weak spring dare never sowI2
And every day desires at willB
To make each hope bloom brighter stillB
With joys as sweet as heart could meltJ2
With feelings dear as e'er were feltJ2
I met at last as like a spellB
The 'witching views of HolywellB
Where hills tower'd high their crowns with prideU
And vales dropp'd headlong by their sideU
Bestriped with shades of green and grayK2
The fir tree and the naked sprayK2
While underneath their mingling grainsL2
The river silver'd down the plainsL2
And bolted on the stranger's sightP
As stars blink out from clouds at nightP
Beside the stream a cotter's shedM2
Low in the hollow heav'd its headM2
Its tenants seem'd as snug to dwellB
As lives a bee within its cellB
Its chimney top high ash embowersL2
Beside its wall the river poursL2
Its guggling sounds in whirling sweepN2
That e'en might lull a child to sleepN2
Before the door with paths untracedM2
The green sward many a beauty gracedM2
And daisy there and cowslip tooM2
And buttercups of golden hueM2
The children meet as soon as soughtM2
And gain their wish as soon as thoughtM2
Who oft I ween the children's wayK2
Will leap the threshold's bounds to playK2
And spite of parent's chiding callsL2
Will straggle where the water fallsL2
And 'neath the hanging bushes creepN2
For violet bud and primrose peepN2
And sigh with anxious eager dreamT
For water blobs amid the streamT
And up the hill side turn anonO
To pick the daisies one by oneO
Then anxious to their cottage boundM2
To show the prize their searches foundM2
Whose medley flowers red white and blueM2
As well can please their parents tooM2
And as their care and skill contriveO2
In flower pots many a day surviveO2
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Ah thus conjecturing musing stillB
I cast a look from off the hillB
And loll'd me 'gainst a propping treeD
And thought for them as 'twas with meD
I did the same in April timeP2
And spoilt the daisy's earliest primeP2
Robb'd every primrose root I metM2
And oft times got the root to setM2
And joyful home each nosegay boreZ
And felt as I shall feel no moreZ

John Clare



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