Yellow Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFGEAHCCCICGFB IJKKJHC LECCCCCCBCCMNMNCCOEO PMPLCBBBCBEIIIOO QEQRIRIIEKKEIQ NSNIEEIS

Must I who walk aloneA
Come on it stillB
This Puck of plantsC
The wise would do away withD
The sunshine slantsC
To play withD
Our wee gold dusty flower the yellow cloverE
Which once in Parting for a timeF
That then seemed longG
Ere time for you was overE
We sealed our ownA
Do you remember yetH
O Soul beyond the starsC
Beyond the uttermost dim barsC
Of spaceC
Dear Soul who found earth sweetI
Remember by love's graceC
In dreamy hushes of the heavenly songG
How suddenly we halted in our climbF
Lingering reluctant up that farthest hillB
Stooped for the blossoms closest to our feetI
And gave them as a tokenJ
Each to EachK
In lieu of speechK
In lieu of words too grievous to be spokenJ
Those little gypsy wondering blossoms wetH
With a strange dew of tearsC
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So it beganL
This vagabond unvalued yellow cloverE
To be our tenderest language All the yearsC
It lent a new zest to the summer hoursC
As each of us went scheming to surpriseC
The other with our homely laureate flowersC
Sonnets and odesC
Fringing our daily roadsC
Can amaranth and asphodelB
Bring merrier laughter to your eyesC
Oh if the Blest in their serene abodesC
Keep any wistful consciousness of earthM
Not grandeurs but the childish ways of loveN
Simplicities of mirthM
Must follow them aboveN
With touches of vague homesickness that passC
Like shadows of swift birds across the grassC
Beneath some foreign arch of skyO
How many a time the roverE
You or IO
For life oft sundered look from lookP
And voice from voice the transient dearthM
Schooling my soul to brookP
This distance that no messages may spanL
Would chanceC
Upon our wilding by a lonely wellB
Or drowsy watermillB
Or swaying to the chime of convent bellB
Or where the nightingales of old romanceC
With tragical contraltos fillB
Dim solitudes of infinite desireE
And once I joyed to meetI
Our peasant gadaboutI
A trespasser on trim seigniorial seatI
Twinkling a saucy eyeO
As potentates paced byO
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Our golden cord our soft pursuing flameQ
From friendship's altar fireE
How proudly we would pluck and tameQ
The dimpling clusters mutinously gayR
How swiftly they were sentI
Far far awayR
On journeys wideI
By sea and continentI
Green miles and blue leagues overE
From each of us to eachK
That so our hearts might reachK
And touch within the yellow cloverE
Love's letter to be glad aboutI
Like sunshine when it cameQ
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My sorrow asks no healing it is loveN
Let love then make me braveS
To bear the keen hurts ofN
This careless summertideI
Ay of our own poor flowerE
Changed with our fatal hourE
For all its sunshine vanished when you diedI
Only white clover blossoms on your graveS

Katharine Lee Bates



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