May-day. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GECE HIJI KLML NOPO QRSI OBTB UGCV QOPO| Now happy swains review the plains | A |
| And hail the first of May | B |
| Now linnets sing to welcome spring | C |
| And every soul is gay | B |
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| Hob joyful soul high rears the pole | D |
| With wild flower wreaths entwin'd | E |
| Then tiptoe round the maidens bound | F |
| All sorrow lags behind | E |
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| Branches of thorn their doors adorn | G |
| With every flowret lin'd | E |
| That earliest spring essays to bring | C |
| Or searching maids can find | E |
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| All swains resort to join the sport | H |
| E'en age will not disdain | I |
| But oft will throng to hear the song | J |
| And view the jocund train | I |
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| I often too had us'd to go | K |
| The rural mirth to share | L |
| But what alas l time brought to pass | M |
| Soon made me absent there | L |
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| My Colin died the village pride | N |
| O hapless misery | O |
| Then sports adieu with him they flew | P |
| For he was all to me | O |
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| And May no more shall e'er restore | Q |
| To me those joys again | R |
| There's no relief but urging grief | S |
| For memory wakens pain | I |
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| To think how he so dear to me | O |
| Had us'd to join the play | B |
| And O so dear such pleasures were | T |
| He gloried in the day | B |
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| But now sad scene he's left the green | U |
| And Lubin here to mourn | G |
| Then flowers may spring and birds may sing | C |
| And May day may return | V |
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| But never more can they restore | Q |
| Their rural sports to me | O |
| No no adieu with him they flew | P |
| For he was all to me | O |
John Clare
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