The Landrail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FBFC GHIH JKLK MNMN FOFO PQPQ RSRS TUTV WXWY ZAZA A2B2A2B2 C2PC2P D2AD2AHow sweet and pleasant grows the way | A |
Through summer time again | B |
While Landrails call from day to day | A |
Amid the grass and grain | C |
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We hear it in the weeding time | D |
When knee deep waves the corn | E |
We hear it in the summers prime | D |
Through meadows night and morn | E |
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And now I hear it in the grass | F |
That grows as sweet again | B |
And let a minutes notice pass | F |
And now tis in the grain | C |
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Tis like a fancy everywhere | G |
A sort of living doubt | H |
We know tis something but it neer | I |
Will blab the secret out | H |
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If heard in close or meadow plots | J |
It flies if we pursue | K |
But follows if we notice not | L |
The close and meadow through | K |
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Boys know the note of many a bird | M |
In their birdnesting bounds | N |
But when the landrails noise is heard | M |
They wonder at the sounds | N |
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They look in every tuft of grass | F |
Thats in their rambles met | O |
They peep in every bush they pass | F |
And none the wiser get | O |
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And still they hear the craiking sound | P |
And still they wonder why | Q |
It surely cant be under ground | P |
Nor is it in the sky | Q |
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And yet tis heard in every vale | R |
An undiscovered song | S |
And makes a pleasant wonder tale | R |
For all the summer long | S |
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The shepherd whistles through his hands | T |
And starts with many a whoop | U |
His busy dog across the lands | T |
In hopes to fright it up | V |
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Tis still a minutes length or more | W |
Till dogs are off and gone | X |
Then sings and louder than before | W |
But keeps the secret on | Y |
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Yet accident will often meet | Z |
The nest within its way | A |
And weeders when they weed the wheat | Z |
Discover where they lay | A |
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And mowers on the meadow lea | A2 |
Chance on their noisy guest | B2 |
And wonder what the bird can be | A2 |
That lays without a nest | B2 |
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In simple holes that birds will rake | C2 |
When dusting on the ground | P |
They drop their eggs of curious make | C2 |
Deep blotched and nearly round | P |
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A mystery still to men and boys | D2 |
Who know not where they lay | A |
And guess it but a summer noise | D2 |
Among the meadow hay | A |
John Clare
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