The Old Cottagers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LL MMNNOOPPQQ| The little cottage stood alone the pride | A |
| Of solitude surrounded every side | A |
| Bean fields in blossom almost reached the wall | B |
| A garden with its hawthorn hedge was all | B |
| The space between Green light did pass | C |
| Through one small window where a looking glass | C |
| Placed in the parlour richly there revealed | D |
| A spacious landscape and a blooming field | D |
| The pasture cows that herded on the moor | E |
| Printed their footsteps to the very door | F |
| Where little summer flowers with seasons blow | G |
| And scarcely gave the eldern leave to grow | G |
| The cuckoo that one listens far away | H |
| Sung in the orchard trees for half the day | H |
| And where the robin lives the village guest | I |
| In the old weedy hedge the leafy nest | I |
| Of the coy nightingale was yearly found | J |
| Safe from all eyes as in the loneliest ground | J |
| And little chats that in bean stalks will lie | K |
| A nest with cobwebs there will build and fly | K |
| Upon the kidney bean that twines and towers | L |
| Up little poles in wreaths of scarlet flowers | L |
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| There a lone couple lived secluded there | M |
| From all the world considers joy or care | M |
| Lived to themselves a long lone journey trod | N |
| And through their Bible talked aloud to God | N |
| While one small close and cow their wants maintained | O |
| But little needing and but little gained | O |
| Their neighbour's name was peace with her they went | P |
| With tottering age and dignified content | P |
| Through a rich length of years and quiet days | Q |
| And filled the neighbouring village with their praise | Q |
John Clare
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