The Shadow House Of Lugh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLEE MMNN OOPP QQRR| Dream fair besides dream waters it stands alone | A |
| A winged thought of Lugh made its corner stone | A |
| A desire of his heart raised its walls on high | B |
| And set its crystal windows to flaunt the sky | B |
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| Its doors of the white bronze are many and bright | C |
| With wonderous carven pillars for his Love's delight | C |
| And its roof of the blue wings the speckled red | D |
| Is a flaming arc of beauty above her head | D |
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| Like a mountain through mist Lugh towers high | B |
| The fiery forked lightning is the glance of his eye | B |
| His countenance is noble as the Sun god's face | E |
| The proudest chieftain he of a proud De Danaan race | E |
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| He bides there in peace now his wars are all done | F |
| He gave his hand to Balor when the death gate was won | F |
| And for the strife scarred heroes who wander in the shade | G |
| His door lieth open and the rich feast is laid | G |
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| He hath no vexing memory of blood in slanting rain | H |
| Of green spears in hedges on a battle plain | H |
| But through the haunted quiet his Love's silver words | I |
| Blow round him swift as wing beats of enchanted birds | I |
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| A grey haunted wind is blowing in the hall | J |
| And stirring through the shadowy spears upon the wall | J |
| The drinking horn goes round from shadowy lip to lip | K |
| And about the golden methers shadowy fingers slip | K |
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| The Star of Beauty she who queens it there | L |
| Diademed and wondrous long her yellows hair | L |
| Her eyes are twin moons in a rose sweet face | E |
| And the fragrance of her presence fills all the place | E |
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| He plays for her pleasure on his harp's gold wire | M |
| The laughter tune that leaps along in trills of fire | M |
| She hears the dancing feet of Sidhe where a white moon gleams | N |
| And all her world is joy in the House of Dreams | N |
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| He plays for her soothing the Slumber song | O |
| Fine and faint as any dream it glides along | O |
| She sleeps until the magic of his kiss shall rouse | P |
| And all her world is quiet in the Shadow house | P |
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| His days glide to night and his nights glide to day | Q |
| With circling of the amber mead and feasting gay | Q |
| In the yellow of her hair his dreams lie curled | R |
| And her arms make the rim of his rainbow world | R |
Ethna Carbery
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