Milestones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIIH JKFKLMCMCNOOON OPOPJMIMCNJJEN FQRQOSOSCMCMOBJB JTCTCKRKKLJTGay balloons and coloured streamers | A |
Gliding figures footsteps light | B |
Flannelled youths and short frocked maidens | C |
Jazzing gaily through the night | B |
Music quaint and queer and catchy | D |
Lilting cadence of the band | E |
Tis a scene of harmless frolic | F |
Youth and pleasure hand in hand | E |
Laughter frank and merry hearted | G |
Careless banter burst of song | H |
While the red red robin | I |
Goes bob bob bobbin | I |
Goes bob bob bobbin along | H |
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Small Miss Anne is sitting dreaming | J |
In the vine clad window seat | K |
Listening to the lilting music | F |
To the trip of dancing feet | K |
But her vision sees a ballroom | L |
Where the swaying lanterns glow | M |
Over maidens in flowing muslins | C |
Courteous gallants bowing low | M |
Hear the cooing flutes and violins | C |
Tis a waltz song sweet and old | N |
Glide along oh river | O |
Where the willows quiver | O |
Glide along for ever | O |
O er thy sands of gold | N |
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Ah the cruel gleaming river | O |
That can sweep young lives away | P |
Gone long gone the youthful lover | O |
Closed the boyish eyes of grey | P |
But the old heart wound is throbbing | J |
As she dreams with cheeks aglow | M |
Of a dew drenched fragrant garden | I |
Where the river breezes blow | M |
Over beds of phlox and pansy | C |
Waxen jasmine while and cold | N |
There amid the gloaming | J |
Lover true are roaming | J |
Hand in hand in Love s dreamland | E |
Where fond hearts ne er grow old | N |
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Soft and clear the rippling music | F |
Steals into a chamber nigh | Q |
Where the dear Old Irish grandma | R |
Waits her summons from on High | Q |
Ready for the great adventure | O |
Is her gently child like soul | S |
For the grand old Faith upholds her | O |
And her life s long simple scroll | S |
Is a screed of shining whiteness | C |
But just now her old eyes glow | M |
As like dancing flickering turf fires | C |
Long lost memories come and go | M |
When the boys began to gather | O |
In the glen of a summer night | B |
And the Kerry pipers tuning | J |
Made us long with a wild delight | B |
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Like the horns of elf land blowing | J |
Rings the distant pipers tune | T |
Laughter gay of lads and colleens | C |
Underneath the harvest moon | T |
To the wind that shook the barley | C |
Tripped their glancing footsteps fleet | K |
Ah Did you dance light dear Grandma | R |
On the hearts beneath your feet | K |
On the daisy spangled greensward | K |
Neath the hawthorn hedge abloom | L |
Ah The days of Kerry dancing | J |
Oh The lilt of the pipers tune | T |
Alice Guerin Crist
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