Milestones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIIH JKFKLMCMCNOOON OPOPJMIMCNJJEN FQRQOSOSCMCMOBJB JTCTCKRKKLJT| Gay 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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