A Silent Mouth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII| O little green leaf on the bough you hear the lark in morn | A |
| You hear the grey feet of the wind stir in the shimmering corn | A |
| You hear low down in the grass | B |
| The Singing Sidhe as they pass | B |
| Do you ever hear O little green flame | C |
| My loved one calling whispering my name | C |
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| O little green leaf on the bough like my lips you must ever be dumb | D |
| For a maiden may never speak until love to her heart says Come | D |
| A mouth in its silence is sweet | E |
| But my heart cries loud when we meet | E |
| And I turn my head with a bitter sigh | F |
| When the boy who has stolen my love unheeding goes by | F |
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| I have made my heart as the stones in the street for his tread | G |
| I have made my love as the shadow that falls from his dear gold head | G |
| But the stones with his footsteps ring | H |
| And the shadow keeps following | H |
| And just as the quiet shadow goes ever beside or before | I |
| So must I go silent and lonely and loveless for evermore | I |
Cathal O'bryne
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