Yellow Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFGEAHCCCICGFB IJKKJHC LECCCCCCBCCMNMNCCOEO PMPLCBBBCBEIIIOO QEQRIRIIEKKEIQ NSNIEEISMust I who walk alone | A |
Come on it still | B |
This Puck of plants | C |
The wise would do away with | D |
The sunshine slants | C |
To play with | D |
Our wee gold dusty flower the yellow clover | E |
Which once in Parting for a time | F |
That then seemed long | G |
Ere time for you was over | E |
We sealed our own | A |
Do you remember yet | H |
O Soul beyond the stars | C |
Beyond the uttermost dim bars | C |
Of space | C |
Dear Soul who found earth sweet | I |
Remember by love's grace | C |
In dreamy hushes of the heavenly song | G |
How suddenly we halted in our climb | F |
Lingering reluctant up that farthest hill | B |
Stooped for the blossoms closest to our feet | I |
And gave them as a token | J |
Each to Each | K |
In lieu of speech | K |
In lieu of words too grievous to be spoken | J |
Those little gypsy wondering blossoms wet | H |
With a strange dew of tears | C |
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So it began | L |
This vagabond unvalued yellow clover | E |
To be our tenderest language All the years | C |
It lent a new zest to the summer hours | C |
As each of us went scheming to surprise | C |
The other with our homely laureate flowers | C |
Sonnets and odes | C |
Fringing our daily roads | C |
Can amaranth and asphodel | B |
Bring merrier laughter to your eyes | C |
Oh if the Blest in their serene abodes | C |
Keep any wistful consciousness of earth | M |
Not grandeurs but the childish ways of love | N |
Simplicities of mirth | M |
Must follow them above | N |
With touches of vague homesickness that pass | C |
Like shadows of swift birds across the grass | C |
Beneath some foreign arch of sky | O |
How many a time the rover | E |
You or I | O |
For life oft sundered look from look | P |
And voice from voice the transient dearth | M |
Schooling my soul to brook | P |
This distance that no messages may span | L |
Would chance | C |
Upon our wilding by a lonely well | B |
Or drowsy watermill | B |
Or swaying to the chime of convent bell | B |
Or where the nightingales of old romance | C |
With tragical contraltos fill | B |
Dim solitudes of infinite desire | E |
And once I joyed to meet | I |
Our peasant gadabout | I |
A trespasser on trim seigniorial seat | I |
Twinkling a saucy eye | O |
As potentates paced by | O |
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Our golden cord our soft pursuing flame | Q |
From friendship's altar fire | E |
How proudly we would pluck and tame | Q |
The dimpling clusters mutinously gay | R |
How swiftly they were sent | I |
Far far away | R |
On journeys wide | I |
By sea and continent | I |
Green miles and blue leagues over | E |
From each of us to each | K |
That so our hearts might reach | K |
And touch within the yellow clover | E |
Love's letter to be glad about | I |
Like sunshine when it came | Q |
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My sorrow asks no healing it is love | N |
Let love then make me brave | S |
To bear the keen hurts of | N |
This careless summertide | I |
Ay of our own poor flower | E |
Changed with our fatal hour | E |
For all its sunshine vanished when you died | I |
Only white clover blossoms on your grave | S |
Katharine Lee Bates
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