Yellow Clover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFGEAHCCCICGFB IJKKJHC LECCCCCCBCCMNMNCCOEO PMPLCBBBCBEIIIOO QEQRIRIIEKKEIQ NSNIEEIS| Must 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 |
| - | |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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