To William Sharp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL IMIM| Fiona Macleod | A |
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| The waves about Iona dirge | B |
| The wild winds trumpet over Skye | C |
| Shrill around Arran's cliff bound verge | B |
| The gray gulls cry | D |
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| Spring wraps its transient scarf of green | E |
| Its heathery robe round slope and scar | F |
| And night the scudding wrack between | E |
| Lights its lone star | F |
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| But you who loved these outland isles | G |
| Their gleams their glooms their mysteries | H |
| Their eldritch lures their druid wiles | G |
| Their tragic seas | H |
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| Will heed no more in mortal guise | I |
| The potent witchery of their call | J |
| If dawn be regnant in the skies | I |
| Or evenfall | J |
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| Yet though where suns Sicilian beam | K |
| The loving earth enfolds your form | L |
| I can but deem these coasts of dream | K |
| And hovering storm | L |
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| Still thrall your spirit that it bides | I |
| By far Iona's kelp strewn shore | M |
| There lingering till time and tides | I |
| Shall surge no more | M |
Clinton Scollard
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