Secret Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA CCAADDEE FFDDGEHI| I hid my love when young till I | A |
| Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly | A |
| I hid my love to my despite | B |
| Till I could not bear to look at light | B |
| I dare not gaze upon her face | C |
| But left her memory in each place | C |
| Where eer I saw a wild flower lie | A |
| I kissed and bade my love good bye | A |
| - | |
| I met her in the greenest dells | C |
| Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells | C |
| The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye | A |
| The bee kissed and went singing by | A |
| A sunbeam found a passage there | D |
| A gold chain round her neck so fair | D |
| As secret as the wild bee's song | E |
| She lay there all the summer long | E |
| - | |
| I hid my love in field and town | F |
| Till een the breeze would knock me down | F |
| The bees seemed singing ballads oer | D |
| The fly's bass turned a lion's roar | D |
| And even silence found a tongue | G |
| To haunt me all the summer long | E |
| The riddle nature could not prove | H |
| Was nothing else but secret love | I |
John Clare
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