My Schoolboy Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBB DEFFGG HHIIJJ KKLLCB GGMMLL NOAAPP QQRRAA| The Spring is come forth but no Spring is for me | A |
| Like the Spring of my boyhood on woodland and lea | A |
| When flowers brought me heaven and knew me again | B |
| In the joy of their blooming o'er mountain and plain | C |
| My thoughts are confined and imprisoned O when | B |
| Will freedom find me my own valleys again | B |
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| The wind breathes so sweet and the day is so calm | D |
| In the woods and the thicket the flowers look so warm | E |
| And the grass is so green so delicious and sweet | F |
| O when shall my manhood my youth's valleys meet | F |
| The scenes where my children are laughing at play | G |
| The scenes that from memory are fading away | G |
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| The primrose looks happy in every field | H |
| In strange woods the violets their odours will yield | H |
| And flowers in the sunshine all brightly arrayed | I |
| Will bloom just as fresh and as sweet in the shade | I |
| But the wild flowers that bring me most joy and content | J |
| Are the blossoms that glow where my childhood was spent | J |
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| The trees are all naked the bushes are bare | K |
| And the fields are as brown as if Winter was there | K |
| But the violets are there by the dykes and the dell | L |
| Where I played hen and chickens and heard the church bell | L |
| Which called me to prayer book and sermons in vain | C |
| O when shall I see my own valleys again | B |
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| The churches look bright as the sun at noon day | G |
| There the meadows look green ere the winter's away | G |
| There the pooty still lies for the schoolboy to find | M |
| And a thought often brings these sweet places to mind | M |
| Where trees waved and wind moaned no music so well | L |
| There nought sounded harsh but the school calling bell | L |
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| There are spots where I played there are spots where I loved | N |
| There are scenes where the tales of my choice where approved | O |
| As green as at first and their memory will be | A |
| The dearest of life's recollections to me | A |
| The objects seen there in the care of my heart | P |
| Are as fair as at first and will never depart | P |
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| Though no names are mentioned to sanction my themes | Q |
| Their hearts beat with mine and make real my dreams | Q |
| Their memories with mine their diurnal course run | R |
| True as night to the stars and as day to the sun | R |
| And as they are now so their memories will be | A |
| While sense truth and reason remain here with me | A |
John Clare
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