The Year Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDEEFFDDDDGG GGHHGGGGGGDDIIGGAAAA GGDDGGAAJJKKGGGGGGLL MMGGAAGGGGHHDDMMHHGG| We zot bezide the leafy wall | A |
| Upon the bench at evenfall | A |
| While aunt led off our minds wrom ceare | B |
| Wi' veairy teales I can't tell where | B |
| An' vound us woone among her stock | C |
| O' feables o' the gert Year clock | C |
| His feace wer blue's the zummer skies | D |
| An' wide's the zight o'looken eyes | D |
| For hands a zun wi' glowen feace | D |
| An' pealer moon wi' swifter peace | D |
| Did wheel by stars o' twinklen light | E |
| By bright wall'd day an' dark treed night | E |
| An' down upon the high sky'd land | F |
| A'reachen wide on either hand | F |
| Wer hill an' dell wi' win' sway'd trees | D |
| An' lights a'zweepen over seas | D |
| An' gleamen cliffs an' bright wall'd tow'rs | D |
| Wi' sheades a marken on the hours | D |
| An' as the feace a rollen round | G |
| Brought comely sheapes along the ground | G |
| The Spring did come in winsome steate | G |
| Below a glowen rainbow geate | G |
| An' fan wi' air a blowen weak | H |
| Her glossy heair an' rwosy cheak | H |
| As she did shed vrom open hand | G |
| The leapen zeed on vurrow'd land | G |
| The while the rook wi' heasty flight | G |
| A floaten in the glowen light | G |
| Did bear avore her glossy breast | G |
| A stick to build her lofty nest | G |
| An' strong limbed Tweil wi' steady hands | D |
| Did guide along the vallow lands | D |
| The heavy zull wi' bright shear'd beam | I |
| Avore the weary oxen team | I |
| Wi' Spring a gone there come behind | G |
| Sweet Zummer jay on ev'ry mind | G |
| Wi' feace a beamen to beguile | A |
| Our weary souls ov ev'ry tweil | A |
| While birds did warble in the dell | A |
| In softest air o' sweetest smell | A |
| An' she so winsome feair did vwold | G |
| Her comely limbs in green an' goold | G |
| An' wear a rwosy wreath wi' studs | D |
| O' berries green an' new born buds | D |
| A fring'd in colours vier bright | G |
| Wi' sheapes o'buttervlies in flight | G |
| When Summer went the next ov all | A |
| Did come the sheape o' brown feac'd Fall | A |
| A smile in a comely gown | J |
| O'green a shot wi' yollow brown | J |
| A border'd wi' a goolden stripe | K |
| O'fringe a meade o' corn ears ripe | K |
| An' up agean her comely zide | G |
| Upon her rounded earm did ride | G |
| A pretty basket all a twin'd | G |
| O' slender stems wi' leaves an' rind | G |
| A vill'd wi' fruit the trees did shed | G |
| All ripe in purple goold an' red | G |
| An' busy Leabor there did come | L |
| A zingen zongs ov harvest hwome | L |
| An' red ear'd dogs did briskly run | M |
| Roun' cheervul Leisure wi' his gun | M |
| Or stan' an' mark wi' stedvast zight | G |
| The speckled pa'tridge rise in flight | G |
| An' next agean to mild feac'd Fall | A |
| Did come peale Winter last ov all | A |
| A benden down in thoughtvul mood | G |
| Her head 'ithin a snow white hood | G |
| A deck'd wi' icy jewels bright | G |
| An' cwold as twinklen stars o' night | G |
| An' there were weary Leabor slack | H |
| O' veet to keep her vrozen track | H |
| A looken off wi' wistful eyes | D |
| To reefs o'smoke that there did rise | D |
| A melten to the peale feac'd zun | M |
| Above the houses' lofty tun | M |
| An' there the gert Year clock did goo | H |
| By day an' night vor ever true | H |
| Wi' mighty wheels a rollen round | G |
| 'Ithout a beat 'ithout a sound | G |
William Barnes
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