Irish Nocturne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFFGHDHDIFFIJ KJKLMLMNN| Now 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 |
Clive Staples Lewis
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