To The Rural Muse. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEED BEBDBEDEED FGFGHGDHHD| Simple enchantress wreath'd in summer blooms | A |
| Of slender bent stalks topt with feathery down | B |
| Heath's creeping vetch and glaring yellow brooms | A |
| With ash keys wavering on thy rushy crown | B |
| Simple enchantress how I've woo'd thy smiles | C |
| How often sought thee far from flush'd renown | B |
| Sought thee unseen where fountain waters fell | D |
| Touch'd thy wild reed unheard in weary toils | E |
| And though my heavy hand thy song defiles | E |
| 'Tis hard to leave thee and to bid farewel | D |
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| Simple enchantress ah from all renown | B |
| Far off my soul hath warm'd in bliss to see | E |
| The varied figures on thy summer gown | B |
| That nature's finger works so 'witchingly | D |
| The colour'd flower the silken leaves that crown | B |
| Green nestling bower bush and high towering tree | E |
| Brooks of the sunny green and shady dell | D |
| Ah sweet full many a time they've been to me | E |
| And though my weak song faulters sung to thee | E |
| I cannot wild enchantress bid farewel | D |
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| Still must I seek thee though I wind the brook | F |
| When morning sunbeams o'er the waters glide | G |
| And trace thy footsteps in the lonely nook | F |
| As evening moists the daisy by thy side | G |
| Ah though I woo thee on thy bed of thyme | H |
| If courting thee be deem'd ambition's pride | G |
| It is so passing sweet with thee to dwell | D |
| If love for thee in clowns be call'd a crime | H |
| Forgive presumption O thou queen of rhyme | H |
| I've lov'd thee long I cannot bid farewel | D |
John Clare
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