The Frightened Ploughman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE DDEE FGEE| I went in the fields with the leisure I got | A |
| The stranger might smile but I heeded him not | A |
| The hovel was ready to screen from a shower | B |
| And the book in my pocket was read in an hour | B |
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| The bird came for shelter but soon flew away | C |
| The horse came to look and seemed happy to stay | C |
| He stood up in quiet and hung down his head | D |
| And seemed to be hearing the poem I read | D |
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| The ploughman would turn from his plough in the day | C |
| And wonder what being had come in his way | C |
| To lie on a molehill and read the day long | E |
| And laugh out aloud when he'd finished his song | E |
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| The pewit turned over and stooped oer my head | D |
| Where the raven croaked loud like the ploughman ill bred | D |
| But the lark high above charmed me all the day long | E |
| So I sat down and joined in the chorus of song | E |
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| The foolhardy ploughman I well could endure | F |
| His praise was worth nothing his censure was poor | G |
| Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long | E |
| Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song | E |
John Clare
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