Poet John Clare

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The Skylark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEGGHHII JJKKLLGG

The rolls and harrows lie at rest besideA
The battered road and spreading far and wideA
Above the russet clods the corn is seenB
Sprouting its spiry points of tender greenB
Where squats the hare to terrors wide awakeC
Like some brown clod the harrows failed to breakC
Opening their golden caskets to the sunD
The buttercups make schoolboys eager runD
To see who shall be first to pluck the prizeE
Up from their hurry see the skylark fliesE
And o'er her half formed nest with happy wingsF
Winnows the air till in the cloud she singsF
Then hangs a dust spot in the sunny skiesE
And drops and drops till in her nest she liesE
Which they unheeded passed not dreaming thenG
That birds which flew so high would drop agenG
To nests upon the ground which anythingH
May come at to destroy Had they the wingH
Like such a bird themselves would be too proudI
And build on nothing but a passing cloudI
As free from danger as the heavens are freeJ
From pain and toil there would they build and beJ
And sail about the world to scenes unheardK
Of and unseen Oh were they but a birdK
So think they while they listen to its songL
And smile and fancy and so pass alongL
While its low nest moist with the dews of mornG
Lies safely with the leveret in the cornG

John Clare



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