To The Butterfly. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIJEEKK LLMMEENNOOPPQQRRAAFF SSTUGGVVWWLLFFXXYYZZ A2A2B2B2NNAALovely insect haste away | A |
Greet once more the sunny day | A |
Leave O leave the murky barn | B |
Ere trapping spiders thee discern | C |
Soon as seen they will beset | D |
Thy golden wings with filmy net | D |
Then all in vain to set thee free | E |
Hopes all lost for liberty | E |
Never think that I belie | F |
Never fear a winter sky | F |
Budding oaks may now be seen | G |
Starry daisies deck the green | G |
Primrose groups the woods adorn | H |
Cloudless skies and blossom'd thorn | H |
These all prove that spring is here | I |
Haste away then never fear | J |
Skim o'er hill and valley free | E |
Perch upon the blossom'd tree | E |
Though my garden would be best | K |
Couldst thou but contended rest | K |
There the school boy has no power | L |
Thee to chase from flower to flower | L |
Harbour none for cruel sport | M |
Far away thy foes resort | M |
Nought is there but liberty | E |
Pleasant place for thee and me | E |
Then hither bend thy roving flight | N |
In my garden take delight | N |
Though the dew bent level dale | O |
Rears the lily of the vale | O |
Though the thicket's bushy dell | P |
Tempts thee to the foxglove's bell | P |
Come but once within my bounds | Q |
View my garden's airy rounds | Q |
Soon thou'lt find the scene complete | R |
And every flowret twice as sweet | R |
Then lovely insect come away | A |
Greet once more the sunny day | A |
Oft I've seen when warm and dry | F |
'Mong the bean fields bosom high | F |
How thy starry gems and gold | S |
To admiration would unfold | S |
Lo the arching heavenly bow | T |
Doth all his dyes on thee bestow | U |
Crimson blue and watery green | G |
Mix'd with azure shade between | G |
These are thine thou first in place | V |
Queen of all the insect race | V |
And I've often thought alone | W |
This to thee was not unknown | W |
For amid the sunny hour | L |
When I've found thee on a flower | L |
Searching with minutest gleg | F |
Oft I've seen thy little leg | F |
Soft as glass o'er velvet glides | X |
Smoothen down thy silken sides | X |
Then thy wings would ope and shut | Y |
Then thou seemingly wouldst strut | Y |
Was it nature was it pride | Z |
Let the learned world decide | Z |
Enough for me though some may deem | A2 |
This a trifling silly theme | A2 |
Would'st thou in my garden come | B2 |
To join the bee's delightful hum | B2 |
These silly themes then day and night | N |
Should be thy trifler's whole delight | N |
Then lovely insect haste away | A |
Greet once more the sunny day | A |
John Clare
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