The Sailor's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCC EFEFGCHC IJI KCKC| The whitethorn is budding and rushes are green | A |
| The ivy leaves rustle around the ash tree | B |
| On the sweet sunny bank blue violets are seen | A |
| That tremble beneath the wild hum of the bee | B |
| The sunbeams they play on the brook's plashy ripples | C |
| Like millions of suns in each swirl looking on | D |
| The rush nods and bows till its tasseled head tipples | C |
| Right into the wimpled flood kissing the stones | C |
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| 'T was down in the cow pasture just at the gloaming | E |
| I met a young woman sweet tempered and mild | F |
| I said Pretty maiden say where are you roving | E |
| I'm walking at even she answered and smiled | F |
| Here my sweetheart and I gathered posies at even | G |
| It's eight years ago since they sent him to sea | C |
| Wild flowers hung with dew are like angels from heaven | H |
| They look up in my face and keep whispering to me | C |
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| They whisper the tales that were told by my true love | I |
| In the evening and morning they glisten with dew | J |
| They say bonny blossoms 'I'll ne'er get a new love | I |
| I love her she's kindly ' I say 'I love him too ' | - |
| The passing by stranger's a stranger no longer | K |
| He kissed off the teardrop which fell from her e'e | C |
| With blue jacket and trousers he is bigger and stronger | K |
| 'T is her own constant Willy returned from the sea | C |
John Clare
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