Remembrances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDDEFFF GGHGFGGGGIGG DDDJKLLDDD AGGGMNNNOPOO QRRRSTIIGIUUU VWVVFXXXEAYAA RRRDLKLRZRR KKKDYYYDDDSummer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one | A |
And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on | B |
I tried to call them back but unbidden they are gone | C |
Far away from heart and eye and for ever far away | D |
Dear heart and can it be that such raptures meet decay | D |
I thought them all eternal when by Langley Bush I lay | D |
I thought them joys eternal when I used to shout and play | D |
On its bank at 'clink and bandy' 'chock' and 'taw' and | E |
ducking stone | F |
Where silence sitteth now on the wild heath as her own | F |
Like a ruin of the past all alone | F |
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When I used to lie and sing by old eastwells boiling spring | G |
When I used to tie the willow boughs together for a 'swing' | G |
And fish with crooked pins and thread and never catch a | H |
thing | G |
With heart just like a feather now as heavy as a stone | F |
When beneath old lea close oak I the bottom branches broke | G |
To make our harvest cart like so many working folk | G |
And then to cut a straw at the brook to have a soak | G |
O I never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a sting | G |
Or that pleasures like a flock of birds would ever take to | I |
wing | G |
Leaving nothing but a little naked spring | G |
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When jumping time away on old cross berry way | D |
And eating awes like sugar plumbs ere they had lost the may | D |
And skipping like a leveret before the peep of day | D |
On the rolly polly up and downs of pleasant swordy well | J |
When in round oaks narrow lane as the south got black again | K |
We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain | L |
With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain | L |
How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry day | D |
O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away | D |
The ancient pulpit trees and the play | D |
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When for school oer 'little field' with its brook and wooden | A |
brig | G |
Where I swaggered like a man though I was not half so big | G |
While I held my little plough though twas but a willow twig | G |
And drove my team along made of nothing but a name | M |
'Gee hep' and 'hoit' and 'woi' O I never call to mind | N |
These pleasant names of places but I leave a sigh behind | N |
While I see the little mouldywharps hang sweeing to the wind | N |
On the only aged willow that in all the field remains | O |
And nature hides her face where theyre sweeing in their | P |
chains | O |
And in a silent murmuring complains | O |
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Here was commons for the hills where they seek for | Q |
freedom still | R |
Though every commons gone and though traps are set to kill | R |
The little homeless miners O it turns my bosom chill | R |
When I think of old 'sneap green' puddocks nook and hilly | S |
snow | T |
Where bramble bushes grew and the daisy gemmed in dew | I |
And the hills of silken grass like to cushions to the view | I |
When we threw the pissmire crumbs when we's nothing | G |
else to do | I |
All leveled like a desert by the never weary plough | U |
All vanished like the sun where that cloud is passing now | U |
All settled here for ever on its brow | U |
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I never thought that joys would run away from boys | V |
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such | W |
summer joys | V |
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys | V |
To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone | F |
Till I found the pleasure past and a winter come at last | X |
Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast | X |
And boyhoods pleasing haunts like a blossom in the blast | X |
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and | E |
done | A |
Till vanished was the morning spring and set that summer | Y |
sun | A |
And winter fought her battle strife and won | A |
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By Langley bush I roam but the bush hath left its hill | R |
On cowper green I stray tis a desert strange and chill | R |
And spreading lea close oak ere decay had penned its will | R |
To the axe of the spoiler and self interest fell a prey | D |
And cross berry way and old round oaks narrow lane | L |
With its hollow trees like pulpits I shall never see again | K |
Inclosure like a Buonaparte let not a thing remain | L |
It levelled every bush and tree and levelled every hill | R |
And hung the moles for traitors though the brook is | Z |
running still | R |
It runs a naked brook cold and chill | R |
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O had I known as then joy had left the paths of men | K |
I had watched her night and day besure and never slept agen | K |
And when she turned to go O I'd caught her mantle then | K |
And wooed her like a lover by my lonely side to stay | D |
Aye knelt and worshipped on as love in beautys bower | Y |
And clung upon her smiles as a bee upon her flower | Y |
And gave her heart my poesys all cropt in a sunny hour | Y |
As keepsakes and pledges to fade away | D |
But love never heeded to treasure up the may | D |
So it went the comon road with decay | D |
John Clare
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