The Skylark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEGGHHII JJKKLLGG| The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside | A |
| The battered road and spreading far and wide | A |
| Above the russet clods the corn is seen | B |
| Sprouting its spiry points of tender green | B |
| Where squats the hare to terrors wide awake | C |
| Like some brown clod the harrows failed to break | C |
| Opening their golden caskets to the sun | D |
| The buttercups make schoolboys eager run | D |
| To see who shall be first to pluck the prize | E |
| Up from their hurry see the skylark flies | E |
| And o'er her half formed nest with happy wings | F |
| Winnows the air till in the cloud she sings | F |
| Then hangs a dust spot in the sunny skies | E |
| And drops and drops till in her nest she lies | E |
| Which they unheeded passed not dreaming then | G |
| That birds which flew so high would drop agen | G |
| To nests upon the ground which anything | H |
| May come at to destroy Had they the wing | H |
| Like such a bird themselves would be too proud | I |
| And build on nothing but a passing cloud | I |
| As free from danger as the heavens are free | J |
| From pain and toil there would they build and be | J |
| And sail about the world to scenes unheard | K |
| Of and unseen Oh were they but a bird | K |
| So think they while they listen to its song | L |
| And smile and fancy and so pass along | L |
| While its low nest moist with the dews of morn | G |
| Lies safely with the leveret in the corn | G |
John Clare
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