Irish Nocturne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFFGHDHDIFFIJ KJKLMLMNNNow the grey mist comes creeping up | A |
From the waste ocean's weedy strand | B |
And fills the valley as a cup | A |
If filled of evil drink in a wizard's hand | B |
And the trees fade out of sight | C |
Like dreary ghosts unhealthily | D |
Into the damp pale night | C |
Till you almost think that a clearer eye could see | E |
Some shape come up of a demon seeking apart | F |
His meat as Grendel sought in Harte | F |
The thanes that sat by the wintry log | G |
Grendel or the shadowy mass | H |
Of Balor or the man with the face of clay | D |
The grey grey walker who used to pass | H |
Over the rock arch nightly to his prey | D |
But here at the dumb slow stream where the willows hang | I |
With never a wind to blow the mists apart | F |
Bitter and bitter it is for thee O my heart | F |
Looking upon this land where poets sang | I |
Thus with the dreary shroud | J |
Unwholesome over it spread | K |
And knowing the fog and the cloud | J |
In her people's heart and head | K |
Even as it lies for ever upon her coasts | L |
Making them dim and dreamy lest her sons should ever arise | M |
And remember all their boasts | L |
For I know that the colourless skies | M |
And the blurred horizons breed | N |
Lonely desire and many words and brooding and never a deed | N |
C. S. Lewis
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