Remembrances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every oneA
And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh onB
I tried to call them back but unbidden they are goneC
Far away from heart and eye and for ever far awayD
Dear heart and can it be that such raptures meet decayD
I thought them all eternal when by Langley Bush I layD
I thought them joys eternal when I used to shout and playD
On its bank at 'clink and bandy' 'chock' and 'taw' andE
ducking stoneF
Where silence sitteth now on the wild heath as her ownF
Like a ruin of the past all aloneF
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When I used to lie and sing by old eastwells boiling springG
When I used to tie the willow boughs together for a 'swing'G
And fish with crooked pins and thread and never catch aH
thingG
With heart just like a feather now as heavy as a stoneF
When beneath old lea close oak I the bottom branches brokeG
To make our harvest cart like so many working folkG
And then to cut a straw at the brook to have a soakG
O I never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a stingG
Or that pleasures like a flock of birds would ever take toI
wingG
Leaving nothing but a little naked springG
-
When jumping time away on old cross berry wayD
And eating awes like sugar plumbs ere they had lost the mayD
And skipping like a leveret before the peep of dayD
On the rolly polly up and downs of pleasant swordy wellJ
When in round oaks narrow lane as the south got black againK
We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rainL
With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grainL
How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry dayD
O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole awayD
The ancient pulpit trees and the playD
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When for school oer 'little field' with its brook and woodenA
brigG
Where I swaggered like a man though I was not half so bigG
While I held my little plough though twas but a willow twigG
And drove my team along made of nothing but a nameM
'Gee hep' and 'hoit' and 'woi' O I never call to mindN
These pleasant names of places but I leave a sigh behindN
While I see the little mouldywharps hang sweeing to the windN
On the only aged willow that in all the field remainsO
And nature hides her face where theyre sweeing in theirP
chainsO
And in a silent murmuring complainsO
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Here was commons for the hills where they seek forQ
freedom stillR
Though every commons gone and though traps are set to killR
The little homeless miners O it turns my bosom chillR
When I think of old 'sneap green' puddocks nook and hillyS
snowT
Where bramble bushes grew and the daisy gemmed in dewI
And the hills of silken grass like to cushions to the viewI
When we threw the pissmire crumbs when we's nothingG
else to doI
All leveled like a desert by the never weary ploughU
All vanished like the sun where that cloud is passing nowU
All settled here for ever on its browU
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I never thought that joys would run away from boysV
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake suchW
summer joysV
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toysV
To petrify first feelings like the fable into stoneF
Till I found the pleasure past and a winter come at lastX
Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcastX
And boyhoods pleasing haunts like a blossom in the blastX
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down andE
doneA
Till vanished was the morning spring and set that summerY
sunA
And winter fought her battle strife and wonA
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By Langley bush I roam but the bush hath left its hillR
On cowper green I stray tis a desert strange and chillR
And spreading lea close oak ere decay had penned its willR
To the axe of the spoiler and self interest fell a preyD
And cross berry way and old round oaks narrow laneL
With its hollow trees like pulpits I shall never see againK
Inclosure like a Buonaparte let not a thing remainL
It levelled every bush and tree and levelled every hillR
And hung the moles for traitors though the brook isZ
running stillR
It runs a naked brook cold and chillR
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O had I known as then joy had left the paths of menK
I had watched her night and day besure and never slept agenK
And when she turned to go O I'd caught her mantle thenK
And wooed her like a lover by my lonely side to stayD
Aye knelt and worshipped on as love in beautys bowerY
And clung upon her smiles as a bee upon her flowerY
And gave her heart my poesys all cropt in a sunny hourY
As keepsakes and pledges to fade awayD
But love never heeded to treasure up the mayD
So it went the comon road with decayD

John Clare



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