The Mores Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Far spread the moorey ground a level sceneA
Bespread with rush and one eternal greenA
That never felt the rage of blundering ploughB
Though centurys wreathed spring's blossoms on its browB
Still meeting plains that stretched them far awayC
In uncheckt shadows of green brown and greyC
Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering sceneA
Nor fence of ownership crept in betweenA
To hide the prospect of the following eyeD
Its only bondage was the circling skyD
One mighty flat undwarfed by bush and treeE
Spread its faint shadow of immensityF
And lost itself which seemed to eke its boundsG
In the blue mist the horizon's edge surroundsG
Now this sweet vision of my boyish hoursH
Free as spring clouds and wild as summer flowersH
Is faded all a hope that blossomed freeE
And hath been once no more shall ever beE
Inclosure came and trampled on the graveI
Of labour's rights and left the poor a slaveI
And memory's pride ere want to wealth did bowB
Is both the shadow and the substance nowB
The sheep and cows were free to range as thenJ
Where change might prompt nor felt the bonds of menJ
Cows went and came with evening morn and nightF
To the wild pasture as their common rightF
And sheep unfolded with the rising sunK
Heard the swains shout and felt their freedom wonK
Tracked the red fallow field and heath and plainL
Then met the brook and drank and roamed againJ
The brook that dribbled on as clear as glassM
Beneath the roots they hid among the grassM
While the glad shepherd traced their tracks alongN
Free as the lark and happy as her songN
But now all's fled and flats of many a dyeD
That seemed to lengthen with the following eyeD
Moors loosing from the sight far smooth and bleaE
Where swopt the plover in its pleasure freeE
Are vanished now with commons wild and gayC
As poet's visions of life's early dayC
Mulberry bushes where the boy would runK
To fill his hands with fruit are grubbed and doneK
And hedgrow briars flower lovers overjoyedF
Came and got flower pots these are all destroyedF
And sky bound mores in mangled garbs are leftF
Like mighty giants of their limbs bereftF
Fence now meets fence in owners' little boundsG
Of field and meadow large as garden groundsG
In little parcels little minds to pleaseO
With men and flocks imprisoned ill at easeO
Each little path that led its pleasant wayC
As sweet as morning leading night astrayC
Where little flowers bloomed round a varied hostF
That travel felt delighted to be lostF
Nor grudged the steps that he had ta en as vainL
When right roads traced his journeys and againJ
Nay on a broken tree he'd sit awhileP
To see the mores and fields and meadows smileP
Sometimes with cowslaps smothered then all whiteF
With daiseys then the summer's splendid sightF
Of cornfields crimson o'er the headache bloomdF
Like splendid armys for the battle plumedF
He gazed upon them with wild fancy's eyeD
As fallen landscapes from an evening skyD
These paths are stopt the rude philistine's thrallQ
Is laid upon them and destroyed them allQ
Each little tyrant with his little signR
Shows where man claims earth glows no more divineR
But paths to freedom and to childhood dearS
A board sticks up to notice 'no road here'S
And on the tree with ivy overhungT
The hated sign by vulgar taste is hungT
As tho' the very birds should learn to knowU
When they go there they must no further goU
Thus with the poor scared freedom bade goodbyeD
And much they feel it in the smothered sighD
And birds and trees and flowers without a nameV
All sighed when lawless law's enclosure cameV
And dreams of plunder in such rebel schemesW
Have found too truly that they were but dreamsW

John Clare



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