Across The Fields To Anne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCBCB DDDBEB FFFBFB GGGBHB IIIBIB JJJBJB| How often in the summer tide | A |
| His graver business set aside | A |
| Has stripling Will the thoughtful eyed | A |
| As to the pipe of Pan | B |
| Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride | A |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| It must have been a merry mile | C |
| This summer stroll by hedge and stile | C |
| With sweet foreknowledge all the while | C |
| How sure the pathway ran | B |
| To dear delights of kiss and smile | C |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| The silly sheep that graze to day | D |
| I wot they let him go his way | D |
| Nor once looked up as who should say | D |
| It is a seemly man | B |
| For many lads went wooing aye | E |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| The oaks they have a wiser look | F |
| Mayhap they whispered to the brook | F |
| The world by him shall yet be shook | F |
| It is in nature's plan | B |
| Though now he fleets like any rook | F |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| And I am sure that on some hour | G |
| Coquetting soft 'twixt sun and shower | G |
| He stooped and broke a daisy flower | G |
| With heart of tiny span | B |
| And bore it as a lover's dower | H |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| While from her cottage garden bed | I |
| She plucked a jasmine's goodlihede | I |
| To scent his jerkin's brown instead | I |
| Now since that love began | B |
| What luckier swain than he who sped | I |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
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| The winding path whereon I pace | J |
| The hedgerow's green the summer's grace | J |
| Are still before me face to face | J |
| Methinks I almost can | B |
| Turn poet and join the singing race | J |
| Across the fields to Anne | B |
Richard Burton
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