The Awakening Of Dermuid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFDF HIGJIEJ DKBKLK MNENEN EEEEEMEO PEEELE PEMEEQPQ| In the sleepy forest where the bluebells | A |
| Smouldered dimly through the night | B |
| Dermuid saw the leaves like glad green waters | C |
| At daybreak flowing into light | B |
| And exultant from his love upspringing | D |
| Strode with the sun upon the height | B |
| - | |
| Glittering on the hilltops | E |
| He saw the sunlit rain | F |
| Drift as around the spindle | G |
| A silver threaded skein | F |
| And the brown mist whitely breaking | D |
| Where arrowy torrents reached the plain | F |
| - | |
| A maddened moon | H |
| Leapt in his heart and whirled the crimson tide | I |
| Of his blood until it sang aloud of battle | G |
| Where the querns of dark death grind | J |
| Till it sang and scorned in pride | I |
| Love the froth pale blossom of the boglands | E |
| That flutters on the waves of the wandering wind | J |
| - | |
| Flower quiet in the rush strewn sheiling | D |
| At the dawntime Grainne lay | K |
| While beneath the birch topped roof the sunlight | B |
| Groped upon its way | K |
| And stooped above her sleeping white body | L |
| With a wasp yellow ray | K |
| - | |
| The hot breath of the day awoke her | M |
| And wearied of its heat | N |
| She wandered out by the noisy elms | E |
| On the cool mossy peat | N |
| Where the shadowed leaves like pecking linnets | E |
| Nodded around her feet | N |
| - | |
| She leaned and saw in the pale grey waters | E |
| By twisted hazel boughs | E |
| Her lips like heavy drooping poppies | E |
| In a rich redness drowse | E |
| Then swallow lightly touched the ripples | E |
| Until her wet lips were | M |
| Burning as ripened rowan berries | E |
| Through the white winter air | O |
| - | |
| Lazily she lingered | P |
| Gazing so | E |
| As the slender osiers | E |
| Where the waters flow | E |
| As green twings of sally | L |
| Swaying to and fro | E |
| - | |
| Sleepy moths fluttered | P |
| In her dark eyes | E |
| And her lips grew quieter | M |
| Than lullabies | E |
| Swaying with the reedgrass | E |
| Over the stream | Q |
| Lazily she lingered | P |
| Cradling a dream | Q |
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