Alice Milligan

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The Dark Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCD EFGFHIEI EJEKLEME NCCCLCOC HJCJPQLQ

There beams no light from thy hall to nightA
Oh House of FameB
No mead vat seethes and no smoke upwreathesC
O'er the hearth's red flameB
No high bard sings for the joy of thy kingsC
And no harpers playD
No hostage moans as thy dungeon ringsC
As in Muircherteach's dayD
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Fallen fallen to ruin all inE
The covering mouldF
The painted yew and the curtains blueG
And the cups of goldF
The linen yellow as the corn when mellowH
That the princes woreI
And the mirrors brazen for your queens to gaze inE
They are here no moreI
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The sea bird's pinion thatched Gormlai's grinnanE
And through windows clearJ
Without crystal pane in her Ard righ's reignE
She looked from hereK
There were quilts of eider on her couch of cedarL
And her silken shoonE
Were as green and soft as the leaves aloftM
On a bough in JuneE
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Ah woe unbounded where the harp once soundedN
The wind now singsC
The grey grass shivers where the mead in riversC
Was outpoured for kingsC
The min and the mether are lost togetherL
With the spoil of the spearsC
The strong dun only has stood dark and lonelyO
Through a thousand yearsC
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But I'm not in woe for the wine cup's flowH
For the banquet's cheerJ
For tall princesses with their trailing tressesC
And their broidered gearJ
My grief and my trouble for this palace nobleP
With no chief to leadQ
'Gainst the Saxon stranger on the day of dangerL
Out of Aileach NeidQ

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