Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABABAA CACADADA EFEFAAAA AGAGAHAH AAAAIJIJ AKAKGLGL IMIMNAOA

The skylark mounts up with the mornA
The valleys are green with the SpringB
The linnets sit in the whitethornA
To build mossy dwellings and singB
I see the thornbush getting greenA
I see the woods dance in the SpringB
But Mary can never be seenA
Though the all cheering Spring doth beginA
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I see the grey bark of the oakC
Look bright through the underwood nowA
To the plough plodding horses they yokeC
But Mary is not with her cowA
The birds almost whistle her nameD
Say where can my Mary be goneA
The Spring brightly shines and 'tis shameD
That she should be absent aloneA
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The cowslips are out on the grassE
Increasing like crowds at a fairF
The river runs smoothly as glassE
And the barges float heavily thereF
The milkmaid she sings to her cowA
But Mary is not to be seenA
Can Nature such absence allowA
At milking on pasture and greenA
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When Sabbath day comes to the greenA
The maidens are there in their bestG
But Mary is not to be seenA
Though I walk till the sun's in the westG
I fancy still each wood and plainA
Where I and my Mary have strayedH
When I was a young country swainA
And she was the happiest maidH
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But woods they are all lonely nowA
And the wild flowers blow all unseenA
The birds sing alone on the boughA
Where Mary and I once have beenA
But for months she now keeps awayI
And I am a sad lonely hindJ
Trees tell me so day after dayI
As slowly they wave in the windJ
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Birds tell me while swaying the boughA
That I am all threadbare and oldK
The very sun looks on me nowA
As one dead forgotten and coldK
Once I'd a place where I could restG
And love for then I was freeL
That place was my Mary's dear breastG
And hope was still left unto meL
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The Spring comes brighter day by dayI
And brighter flowers appearM
And though she long has kept awayI
Her name is ever dearM
Then leave me still the meadow flowersN
Where daffies blaze and shineA
Give but the Spring's young hawthorn bowerO
For then sweet Mary's mineA

John Clare



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