The Last Piper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BBEB BBFB FGHG EBEB BIGI| Dark winds of the mountain | A |
| White winds of the sea | B |
| Are skirling the pibroch | C |
| Of Seumas an Righ | D |
| - | |
| The crying of gannets | B |
| The shrieking of terns | B |
| Are keening his dying | E |
| High over the burns | B |
| - | |
| Grey silence of waters | B |
| And wasting of lands | B |
| And the wailing of music | F |
| Down to the sands | B |
| - | |
| The wailing of music | F |
| And trailing of wind | G |
| The waters before him | H |
| The mountains behind | G |
| - | |
| Alone at the gathering | E |
| Silent he stands | B |
| And the wail of his piping | E |
| Cries over the lands | B |
| - | |
| To the moan of the waters | B |
| The drone of the foam | I |
| Where his soul a white gannet | G |
| Wings silently home | I |
Edward J. O'brien
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