The Rush-bearing At Ambleside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHAA IIJJKK LLMMNN| SUMMER is come with her leaves and her flowers | A |
| Summer is come with the sun on her hours | A |
| The lark in the clouds and the thrush on the bough | B |
| And the dove in the thicket make melody now | B |
| The noon is abroad but the shadows are cool | C |
| Where the green rushes grow in the dark forest pool | C |
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| We seek not the hedges where violets blow | D |
| There alone in the twilight of ev'ning we go | D |
| They are love tokens offered when heavy with dew | E |
| To a lip yet more fragrant an eye yet more blue | E |
| But leave them alone to their summer soft dream | F |
| We seek the green rushes that grow by the stream | F |
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| Away from the meadow although the long grass | G |
| Be filled with young flowers that smile as we pass | G |
| Where the bird's eye is bright as the sapphires that shine | H |
| When the hand of a beauty is decked from the mine | H |
| We want not their gems and we want not their flowers | A |
| But we seek the green rush in the dark forest bowers | A |
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| The cowslip is ringing its fairy like chime | I |
| Sweet bells by whose music Titania keeps time | I |
| The rose bush is covered with cups that unfold | J |
| Their petals that tremble in delicate gold | J |
| But we seek not their blossoms in garlands to blend | K |
| We seek the green rush where the willow trees bend | K |
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| The green rush the green rush we bear it along | L |
| To the church of our village with triumph and song | L |
| We strew the cold chancel and kneel on it there | M |
| While its fresh odours rise with our voices in prayer | M |
| Hark the peal from the old tower in praise of it rings | N |
| Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs | N |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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