The Shepherd's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDD EFEFDBDBGH IJIKLBLBFF BMBMNBNBBB| How sweet is every lengthening day | A |
| And every change of weather | B |
| When Summer comes on skies blue grey | A |
| And brings her hosts together | B |
| Her flocks of birds her crowds of flowers | C |
| Her sunny shining water | B |
| I dearly love the woodbine bowers | C |
| That hide the Shepherd's Daughter | B |
| In gown of green or brown or blue | D |
| The Shepherd's Daughter leal and true | D |
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| How bonny is her lily breast | E |
| How sweet her rosy face | F |
| She'd give my aching bosom rest | E |
| Where love would find its place | F |
| While earth is green and skies are blue | D |
| And sunshine gilds the water | B |
| While Summer's sweet and Nature true | D |
| I'll love the Shepherd's Daughter | B |
| Her nut brown hair her clear bright eye | G |
| My daily thought my only joy | H |
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| She's such a simple sweet young thing | I |
| Dressed in her country costume | J |
| My wits had used to know the Spring | I |
| Till I saw and loved and lost 'em | K |
| How quietly the lily lies | L |
| Upon the deepest water | B |
| How sweet to me the Summer skies | L |
| And so's the Shepherd's Daughter | B |
| With lily breast and rosy face | F |
| The sweetest maid in any place | F |
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| My singing bird my bonny flower | B |
| How dearly could I love thee | M |
| To sit with thee one pleasant hour | B |
| If thou would'st but approve me | M |
| I swear by lilies white and yellow | N |
| That flower on deepest water | B |
| Would'st thou but make me happy fellow | N |
| I'd wed the Shepherd's Daughter | B |
| By all that's on the earth or water | B |
| I more than love the Shepherd's Daughter | B |
John Clare
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