Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCC DEDFFGFGG HIJIIKIKK LGMGGNGNN OPOPPQPQQ RSTSSUSUG VWVWWXWXX PYPYYGYGU AZAZZNZNN

The Sabbath day of every day the bestA
The poor mans happiness a poor man singsB
When labour has no claim to break his restA
And the light hours fly swift on easy wingsB
What happiness this holy morning bringsB
How soft its pleasures on his senses stealC
How sweet the village bells' first warning ringsB
And O how comfortable does he feelC
When with his family at ease he takes his early mealC
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The careful wife displays her frugal hoardD
And both partake in comfort though they're poorE
While love's sweet offsprings crowd the lowly boardD
Their little likenesses in miniatureF
Though through the week he labour does endureF
And weary limbs oft cause him to complainG
This welcome morning always brings a cureF
It teems with joys his soul to entertainG
And doubly sweet appears the pleasure after painG
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Ah who call tell the bliss from labour freedH
His leisure meeteth on a Sunday mornI
Fix'd in a chair some godly book to readJ
Or wandering round to view the crops of cornI
In best clothes fitted out and beard new shornI
Dropping adown in some warm shelter'd dellK
With six days' labour weak and weary wornI
List'ning around each distant chiming bellK
That on the soft'ning breeze melodiously doth swellK
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And oft he takes his family abroadL
In short excursions o'er the field and plainG
Marking each little object on his roadM
An insect sprig of grass and ear of grainG
Endeavouring thus most simply to maintainG
That the same Power that bids the mite to crawlN
That browns the wheat lands in their summer stainG
That Power which form'd the simple flower withalN
Form'd all that lives and grows upon this earthly ballN
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The bell when knoll'd its summons once and twiceO
Now chimes in concert calling all to prayersP
The rustic boy that hankers after viceO
And of religion little knows or caresP
Scrapes up his marbles and by force repairsP
Though dallying on till the last bell has rungQ
The good man there his book devoutly bearsP
And often as he walks the graves amongQ
Looks on the untravel'd dust from whence his being sprungQ
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The service ended boys their play resumeR
In some snug corner from the parson's viewS
And where the searching clerk forgets to comeT
There they their games and rural sports pursueS
With chuck and marbles wearing Sunday throughS
The poor man seeks his cottage hearth againU
And brings his family the text to viewS
From which the parson's good discourse was ta'enU
Which with what skill he may he labours to explainG
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Hail sacred sabbath hail thou poor man's joyV
Thou oft hast been a comfort to my careW
When faint and weary with the week's employV
I met thy presence in my corner chairW
Musing and bearing up with troubles thereW
Thrice hail thou heavenly boon by God's decreeX
At first creation plann'd that all might shareW
Both man and beast some hours from labour freeX
To offer thanks to Him whose mercy sent us theeX
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This day the field a sweeter clothing wearsP
A Sunday scene looks brighter to the eyeY
And hast'ning on to Monday morning's caresP
With double speed the wing'd hour gallops byY
How swift the sun streaks down the western skyY
Scarcely perceiv'd till it begins to waneG
When ploughboys mark his setting with a sighY
Dreading the morn's approaching hours with painG
When capon's restless calls awake to toil againU
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As the day closes on its peace and restA
The godly man sits down and takes the bookZ
To close it in a manner deem'd the bestA
And for a suiting chapter doth he lookZ
That may for comfort and a guide be tookZ
He reads of patient Job his trials' thrallN
How men are troubled when by God forsookZ
And prays with David to bear up with allN
When sleep shuts up the scene soft as the nightdews fallN

John Clare



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