Written In Northampton County Asylum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBD EFEFGG HIHIJJ| I am yet what I am who cares or knows | A |
| My friends forsake me like a memory lost | B |
| I am the self consumer of my woes | A |
| They rise and vanish an oblivious host | C |
| Shadows of life whose very soul is lost | B |
| And yet I am I live though I am toss d | D |
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| Into the nothingness of scorn and noise | E |
| Into the living sea of waking dream | F |
| Where there is neither sense of life nor joys | E |
| But the huge shipwreck of my own esteem | F |
| And all that s dear Even those I loved the best | G |
| Are strange nay they are stranger than the rest | G |
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| I long for scenes where man has never trod | H |
| For scenes where woman never smiled or wept | I |
| There to abide with my Creator God | H |
| And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept | I |
| Full of high thoughts unborn So let me lie | J |
| The grass below above the vaulted sky | J |
John Clare
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