Recollections After An Evening Walk. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEGGHHII JJKKBBIIAALLHHEEMMNN IOPPHHQQRRSSTTAAGGEE

Just as the even bell rang we set outA
To wander the fields and the meadows aboutA
And the first thing we mark'd that was lovely to viewB
Was the sun hung on nothing just bidding adieuB
He seem'd like a ball of pure gold in the westC
In a cloud like a mountain blue dropping to restC
The skies all around him were ting'd with his raysD
And the trees at a distance seem'd all on a blazeD
Till lower and lower he sank from our sightE
And the blue mist came creeping with silence and nightE
The woodman then ceas'd with his hatchet to hackF
And bent away home with his kid on his backF
The mower too lapt up his scythe from our sightE
And put on his jacket and bid us good nightE
The thresher once lumping we heard him no moreG
He left his barn dust and had shut up his doorG
The shepherd had told all his sheep in his penH
And humming his song sought his cottage agenH
But the sweetest of all seeming music to meI
Were the songs of the clumsy brown beetle and beeI
The one was seen hast'ning away to his hiveJ
The other was just from his sleeping aliveJ
'Gainst our hats he kept knocking as if he'd no eyesK
And when batter'd down he was puzzled to riseK
The little gay moth too was lovely to viewB
A dancing with lily white wings in the dewB
He whisk'd o'er the water pudge flirting and airyI
And perch'd on the down headed grass like a fairyI
And there came the snail from his shell peeping outA
As fearful and cautious as thieves on the routA
The sly jumping frog too had ventur'd to trampL
And the glow worm had just 'gun to light up his lampL
To sip of the dew the worm peep'd from his denH
But dreading our footsteps soon vanish'd agenH
And numbers of creatures appear'd in our sightE
That live in the silence and sweetness of nightE
Climbing up the tall grasses or scaling the boughM
But these were all nameless unnotic'd till nowM
And then we wound round 'neath the brook's willow rowN
And look'd at the clouds that kept passing belowN
The moon's image too in the brook we could see'tI
As if 'twas the other world under our feetO
And we listen'd well pleas'd at the guggles and groansP
The water made passing the pebbles and stonesP
And then we turn'd up by the rut rifted laneH
And sought for our cot and the village againH
For night gather'd round and shut all from the eyeQ
And a black sultry cloud crept all over the skyQ
The dew on the bush soon as touch'd it would dropR
And the grass 'neath our feet was as wet as a mopR
And as to the town we approach'd very fastS
The bat even popp'd in our face as he pastS
And the crickets sang loud as we went by the houseT
And by the barn side we saw many a mouseT
Quirking round for the kernels that litter'd aboutA
Were shook from the straw which the thresher hurl'd outA
And then we came up to our cottage once moreG
And shut out the night dew and lock'd up the doorG
The dog bark'd a welcome well pleas'd at our sightE
And the owl o'er our cot flew and whoop'd a good nightE

John Clare



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