Lettermore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAA ACDDAC AEFFAE AGHHAG AIJJAI AHKKAHThese winter days on Lettermore | A |
The brown west wind it sweeps the bay | B |
And icy rain beats on the bare | A |
Unhomely fields that perish there | A |
The stony fields of Lettermore | A |
That drink the white Atlantic spray | A |
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And men who starve on Lettermore | A |
Cursing the haggard hungry surf | C |
Will souse the autumn's bruis d grains | D |
To light dark fires within their brains | D |
And fight with stones on Lettermore | A |
Or sprawl beside the smoky turf | C |
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When spring blows over Lettermore | A |
To bloom the ragged furze with gold | E |
The lovely south wind's living breath | F |
Is laden with the smell of death | F |
For fever breeds on Lettermore | A |
To waste the eyes of young and old | E |
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A black van comes to Lettermore | A |
The horses stumble on the stones | G |
The drivers curse for it is hard | H |
To cross the hills from Oughterard | H |
And cart the sick from Lettermore | A |
A stinking load of rags and bones | G |
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But you will go to Lettermore | A |
When white sea trout are on the run | I |
When purple glows between the rocks | J |
About Lord Dudley's fishing box | J |
Adown the road to Lettermore | A |
And wide seas tarnish in the sun | I |
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And so you'll think of Lettermore | A |
As a lost island of the blest | H |
With peasant lovers in a blue | K |
Dim dusk with heather drench'd in dew | K |
And the sweet peace of Lettermore | A |
Remote and dreaming in the West | H |
Francis Brett Young
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