On The Sight Of Spring. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEFGHIHIJIJKJK LMLN| How sweet it us'd to be when April first | A |
| Unclos'd the arum leaves and into view | B |
| Its ear like spindling flowers their cases burst | A |
| Beting'd with yellowish white or lushy hue | B |
| Though manhood now with such has small to do | B |
| Yet I remember what delight was mine | C |
| When on my Sunday walks I us'd to go | D |
| Flower gathering tribes in childish bliss to join | E |
| Peeping and searching hedge row side or woods | F |
| When thorns stain green with slow unclosing buds | G |
| Ah how delighted humming on the time | H |
| Some nameless song or tale I sought the flowers | I |
| Some rushy dyke to jump or brink to climb | H |
| Ere I obtain'd them while from hasty showers | I |
| Oft under trees we nestled in a ring | J |
| Culling our lords and ladies O ye hours | I |
| I never see the broad leav'd arum spring | J |
| Stained with spots of jet I never see | K |
| Those dear delights which April still does bring | J |
| But memory's tongue repeats it all to me | K |
| I view her pictures with an anxious eye | L |
| I hear her stories with a pleasing pain | M |
| Youth's wither'd flowers alas ye make me sigh | L |
| To think in me ye'll never bloom again | N |
John Clare
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