I'll Dream Upon The Days To Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGFHFI FJFKLMLM NONOPQPQ| I'll lay me down on the green sward | A |
| Mid yellowcups and speedwell blue | B |
| And pay the world no more regard | C |
| But be to Nature leal and true | B |
| Who break the peace of hapless man | D |
| But they who Truth and Nature wrong | E |
| I'll hear no more of evil's plan | D |
| But live with Nature and her song | E |
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| Where Nature's lights and shades are green | F |
| Where Nature's place is strewn with flowers | G |
| Where strife and care are never seen | F |
| There I'll retire to happy hours | G |
| And stretch my body on the green | F |
| And sleep among the flowers in bloom | H |
| By eyes of malice seldom seen | F |
| And dream upon the days to come | I |
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| I'll lay me by the forest green | F |
| I'll lay me on the pleasant grass | J |
| My life shall pass away unseen | F |
| I'll be no more the man I was | K |
| The tawny bee upon the flower | L |
| The butterfly upon the leaf | M |
| Like them I'll live my happy hour | L |
| A life of sunshine bright and brief | M |
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| In greenwood hedges close at hand | N |
| Build brood and sing the little birds | O |
| The happiest things in the green land | N |
| While sweetly feed the lowing herds | O |
| While softly bleat the roving sheep | P |
| Upon the green grass will I lie | Q |
| A Summer's day to think and sleep | P |
| Or see the clouds sail down the sky | Q |
John Clare
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