Now Is Past Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBB BABDBAEDEB CCCCBFDFDB| Now is past the happy now | A |
| When we together roved | B |
| Beneath the wildwood's oak tree bough | A |
| And Nature said we loved | B |
| Winter's blast | B |
| The now since then has crept between | C |
| And left us both apart | B |
| Winters that withered all the green | C |
| Have froze the beating heart | B |
| Now is past | B |
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| Now is past since last we met | B |
| Beneath the hazel bough | A |
| Before the evening sun was set | B |
| Her shadow stretched below | D |
| Autumn's blast | B |
| Has stained and blighted every bough | A |
| Wild strawberries like her lips | E |
| Have left the mosses green below | D |
| Her bloom's upon the hips | E |
| Now is past | B |
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| Now is past is changed agen | C |
| The woods and fields are painted new | C |
| Wild strawberries which both gathered then | C |
| None know now where they grew | C |
| The skys oercast | B |
| Wood strawberries faded from wood sides | F |
| Green leaves have all turned yellow | D |
| No Adelaide walks the wood rides | F |
| True love has no bed fellow | D |
| Now is past | B |
John Clare
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