Recollections After An Evening Walk. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEGGHHII JJKKBBIIAALLHHEEMMNN IOPPHHQQRRSSTTAAGGEEJust as the even bell rang we set out | A |
To wander the fields and the meadows about | A |
And the first thing we mark'd that was lovely to view | B |
Was the sun hung on nothing just bidding adieu | B |
He seem'd like a ball of pure gold in the west | C |
In a cloud like a mountain blue dropping to rest | C |
The skies all around him were ting'd with his rays | D |
And the trees at a distance seem'd all on a blaze | D |
Till lower and lower he sank from our sight | E |
And the blue mist came creeping with silence and night | E |
The woodman then ceas'd with his hatchet to hack | F |
And bent away home with his kid on his back | F |
The mower too lapt up his scythe from our sight | E |
And put on his jacket and bid us good night | E |
The thresher once lumping we heard him no more | G |
He left his barn dust and had shut up his door | G |
The shepherd had told all his sheep in his pen | H |
And humming his song sought his cottage agen | H |
But the sweetest of all seeming music to me | I |
Were the songs of the clumsy brown beetle and bee | I |
The one was seen hast'ning away to his hive | J |
The other was just from his sleeping alive | J |
'Gainst our hats he kept knocking as if he'd no eyes | K |
And when batter'd down he was puzzled to rise | K |
The little gay moth too was lovely to view | B |
A dancing with lily white wings in the dew | B |
He whisk'd o'er the water pudge flirting and airy | I |
And perch'd on the down headed grass like a fairy | I |
And there came the snail from his shell peeping out | A |
As fearful and cautious as thieves on the rout | A |
The sly jumping frog too had ventur'd to tramp | L |
And the glow worm had just 'gun to light up his lamp | L |
To sip of the dew the worm peep'd from his den | H |
But dreading our footsteps soon vanish'd agen | H |
And numbers of creatures appear'd in our sight | E |
That live in the silence and sweetness of night | E |
Climbing up the tall grasses or scaling the bough | M |
But these were all nameless unnotic'd till now | M |
And then we wound round 'neath the brook's willow row | N |
And look'd at the clouds that kept passing below | N |
The moon's image too in the brook we could see't | I |
As if 'twas the other world under our feet | O |
And we listen'd well pleas'd at the guggles and groans | P |
The water made passing the pebbles and stones | P |
And then we turn'd up by the rut rifted lane | H |
And sought for our cot and the village again | H |
For night gather'd round and shut all from the eye | Q |
And a black sultry cloud crept all over the sky | Q |
The dew on the bush soon as touch'd it would drop | R |
And the grass 'neath our feet was as wet as a mop | R |
And as to the town we approach'd very fast | S |
The bat even popp'd in our face as he past | S |
And the crickets sang loud as we went by the house | T |
And by the barn side we saw many a mouse | T |
Quirking round for the kernels that litter'd about | A |
Were shook from the straw which the thresher hurl'd out | A |
And then we came up to our cottage once more | G |
And shut out the night dew and lock'd up the door | G |
The dog bark'd a welcome well pleas'd at our sight | E |
And the owl o'er our cot flew and whoop'd a good night | E |
John Clare
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