Insects Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHHDDIIJJCC KKLL| These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard | A |
| And happy units of a numerous herd | B |
| Of playfellows the laughing Summer brings | C |
| Mocking the sunshine on their glittering wings | C |
| How merrily they creep and run and fly | D |
| No kin they bear to labour's drudgery | E |
| Smoothing the velvet of the pale hedge rose | F |
| And where they fly for dinner no one knows | F |
| The dew drops feed them not they love the shine | G |
| Of noon whose suns may bring them golden wine | G |
| All day they're playing in their Sunday dress | H |
| When night reposes for they can do no less | H |
| Then to the heath bell's purple hood they fly | D |
| And like to princes in their slumbers lie | D |
| Secure from rain and dropping dews and all | I |
| In silken beds and roomy painted hall | I |
| So merrily they spend their summer day | J |
| Now in the corn fields now in the new mown hay | J |
| One almost fancies that such happy things | C |
| With coloured hoods and richly burnished wings | C |
| Are fairy folk in splendid masquerade | K |
| Disguised as if of mortal folk afraid | K |
| Keeping their joyous pranks a mystery still | L |
| Lest glaring day should do their secrets ill | L |
John Clare
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