The Swallow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFAB CCGG HHFF IIHH| Pretty swallow once again | A |
| Come and pass me in the rain | B |
| Pretty swallow why so shy | C |
| Pass again my window by | C |
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| The horsepond where he dips his wings | D |
| The wet day prints it full of rings | D |
| The raindrops on his track | E |
| Lodge like pearls upon his back | E |
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| Then again he dips his wing | F |
| In the wrinkles of the spring | F |
| Then oer the rushes flies again | A |
| And pearls roll off his back like rain | B |
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| Pretty little swallow fly | C |
| Village doors and windows by | C |
| Whisking oer the garden pales | G |
| Where the blackbird finds the snails | G |
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| Whewing by the ladslove tree | H |
| For something only seen by thee | H |
| Pearls that on the red rose hing | F |
| Fall off shaken by thy wing | F |
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| On that low thatched cottage stop | I |
| In the sooty chimney pop | I |
| Where thy wife and family | H |
| Every evening wait for thee | H |
John Clare
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