Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABAA CACADADA EFEFAAAA AGAGAHAH AAAAIJIJ AKAKGLGL IMIMNAOAThe skylark mounts up with the morn | A |
The valleys are green with the Spring | B |
The linnets sit in the whitethorn | A |
To build mossy dwellings and sing | B |
I see the thornbush getting green | A |
I see the woods dance in the Spring | B |
But Mary can never be seen | A |
Though the all cheering Spring doth begin | A |
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I see the grey bark of the oak | C |
Look bright through the underwood now | A |
To the plough plodding horses they yoke | C |
But Mary is not with her cow | A |
The birds almost whistle her name | D |
Say where can my Mary be gone | A |
The Spring brightly shines and 'tis shame | D |
That she should be absent alone | A |
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The cowslips are out on the grass | E |
Increasing like crowds at a fair | F |
The river runs smoothly as glass | E |
And the barges float heavily there | F |
The milkmaid she sings to her cow | A |
But Mary is not to be seen | A |
Can Nature such absence allow | A |
At milking on pasture and green | A |
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When Sabbath day comes to the green | A |
The maidens are there in their best | G |
But Mary is not to be seen | A |
Though I walk till the sun's in the west | G |
I fancy still each wood and plain | A |
Where I and my Mary have strayed | H |
When I was a young country swain | A |
And she was the happiest maid | H |
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But woods they are all lonely now | A |
And the wild flowers blow all unseen | A |
The birds sing alone on the bough | A |
Where Mary and I once have been | A |
But for months she now keeps away | I |
And I am a sad lonely hind | J |
Trees tell me so day after day | I |
As slowly they wave in the wind | J |
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Birds tell me while swaying the bough | A |
That I am all threadbare and old | K |
The very sun looks on me now | A |
As one dead forgotten and cold | K |
Once I'd a place where I could rest | G |
And love for then I was free | L |
That place was my Mary's dear breast | G |
And hope was still left unto me | L |
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The Spring comes brighter day by day | I |
And brighter flowers appear | M |
And though she long has kept away | I |
Her name is ever dear | M |
Then leave me still the meadow flowers | N |
Where daffies blaze and shine | A |
Give but the Spring's young hawthorn bower | O |
For then sweet Mary's mine | A |
John Clare
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