The Crow Sat On The Willow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCAEE FGFGHIH HH DHD AJAJKK LBLBMNM EE| The crow sat on the willow tree | A |
| A lifting up his wings | B |
| And glossy was his coat to see | A |
| And loud the ploughman sings | B |
| 'I love my love because I know | C |
| The milkmaid she loves me' | D |
| And hoarsely croaked the glossy crow | C |
| Upon the willow tree | A |
| 'I love my love' the ploughman sung | E |
| And all the fields with music rung | E |
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| 'I love my love a bonny lass | F |
| She keeps her pails so bright | G |
| And blythe she trips the dewy grass | F |
| At morning and at night | G |
| A cotton dress her morning gown | H |
| Her face was rosy health | I |
| She traced the pastures up and down | H |
| And nature was her wealth ' | - |
| He sung and turned each furrow down | H |
| His sweetheart's love in cotton gown | H |
| - | |
| 'My love is young and handsome | D |
| As any in the town | H |
| She's worth a ploughman's ransom | D |
| In the drab cotton gown ' | - |
| He sang and turned his furrow oer | A |
| And urged his team along | J |
| While on the willow as before | A |
| The old crow croaked his song | J |
| The ploughman sung his rustic lay | K |
| And sung of Phoebe all the day | K |
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| The crow he was in love no doubt | L |
| And so were many things | B |
| The ploughman finished many a bout | L |
| And lustily he sings | B |
| 'My love she is a milking maid | M |
| With red rosy cheek | N |
| Of cotton drab her gown was made | M |
| I loved her many a week ' | - |
| His milking maid the ploughman sung | E |
| Till all the fields around him rung | E |
John Clare
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