To A Bower. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACADEFFGGEHIJKAK A| Three times sweet hawthorn I have met thy bower | A |
| And thou hast gain'd my love and I do feel | B |
| An aching pain to leave thee every flower | A |
| Around thee opening doth new charms reveal | B |
| And binds my fondness stronger Wild wood bower | A |
| In memory's calendar thou'rt treasur'd up | C |
| And should we meet in some remoter hour | A |
| When all thy bloom to winter winds shall droop | D |
| Ah in life's winter many a day to come | E |
| Should my grey wrinkles pass thy spot of ground | F |
| And find it bare with thee no longer crown'd | F |
| Within the woodman's faggot torn from hence | G |
| Or chopt by hedgers up for yonder fence | G |
| Ah should I chance by thee as then to come | E |
| I'll look upon thy nakedness with pain | H |
| And as I view thy desolated doom | I |
| In fancy's eye I'll fetch thy shade again | J |
| And of this lovely day I'll think and sigh | K |
| And ponder o'er this sweetly passing hour | A |
| And feel as then the throes of joys gone by | K |
| When I was young and thou a blooming bower | A |
John Clare
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