The Landrail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FBFC GHIH JKLK MNMN FOFO PQPQ RSRS TUTV WXWY ZAZA A2B2A2B2 C2PC2P D2AD2A

How sweet and pleasant grows the wayA
Through summer time againB
While Landrails call from day to dayA
Amid the grass and grainC
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We hear it in the weeding timeD
When knee deep waves the cornE
We hear it in the summers primeD
Through meadows night and mornE
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And now I hear it in the grassF
That grows as sweet againB
And let a minutes notice passF
And now tis in the grainC
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Tis like a fancy everywhereG
A sort of living doubtH
We know tis something but it neerI
Will blab the secret outH
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If heard in close or meadow plotsJ
It flies if we pursueK
But follows if we notice notL
The close and meadow throughK
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Boys know the note of many a birdM
In their birdnesting boundsN
But when the landrails noise is heardM
They wonder at the soundsN
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They look in every tuft of grassF
Thats in their rambles metO
They peep in every bush they passF
And none the wiser getO
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And still they hear the craiking soundP
And still they wonder whyQ
It surely cant be under groundP
Nor is it in the skyQ
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And yet tis heard in every valeR
An undiscovered songS
And makes a pleasant wonder taleR
For all the summer longS
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The shepherd whistles through his handsT
And starts with many a whoopU
His busy dog across the landsT
In hopes to fright it upV
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Tis still a minutes length or moreW
Till dogs are off and goneX
Then sings and louder than beforeW
But keeps the secret onY
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Yet accident will often meetZ
The nest within its wayA
And weeders when they weed the wheatZ
Discover where they layA
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And mowers on the meadow leaA2
Chance on their noisy guestB2
And wonder what the bird can beA2
That lays without a nestB2
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In simple holes that birds will rakeC2
When dusting on the groundP
They drop their eggs of curious makeC2
Deep blotched and nearly roundP
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A mystery still to men and boysD2
Who know not where they layA
And guess it but a summer noiseD2
Among the meadow hayA

John Clare



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