Mary Bayfield Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DBDBEBEB BFBFGBGB HIJIKBKB| How beautiful the summer night | A |
| When birds roost on the mossy tree | B |
| When moon and stars are shining bright | A |
| And home has gone the weary bee | B |
| Then Mary Bayfield seeks the glen | C |
| The white hawthorn and grey oak tree | B |
| And nought but heaven can tell me then | C |
| How dear thy beauty is to me | B |
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| Dear is the dewdrop to the flower | D |
| The old wall to the weary bee | B |
| And silence to the evening hour | D |
| And ivy to the stooping tree | B |
| Dearer than these than all beside | E |
| Than blossoms to the moss rose tree | B |
| The maid who wanders by my side | E |
| Sweet Mary Bayfield is to me | B |
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| Sweet is the moonlight on the tree | B |
| The stars above the glassy lake | F |
| That from the bottom look at me | B |
| Through shadows of the crimping brake | F |
| Such are sweet things but sweeter still | G |
| Than these and all beside I see | B |
| The maid whose look my heart can thrill | G |
| My Mary Bayfield's look to me | B |
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| O Mary with the dark brown hair | H |
| The rosy cheek the beaming eye | I |
| I would thy shade were ever near | J |
| Then would I never grieve or sigh | I |
| I love thee Mary dearly love | K |
| There's nought so fair on earth I see | B |
| There's nought so dear in heaven above | K |
| As Mary Bayfield is to me | B |
John Clare
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