The Lanawn Shee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE G HB IJKL MBNB OPQP RJBJ SETE AUA UEVE WVXV YEZE YBA2B B2C2BC2 D2E2F2E2 G2BH2B E2CI2C J2K2L2M2 ACN2C VLCL O2EP2 Q2BR2B Q2PQ2P R2LS2L VAQ2A Q2ALA Q2LT2L

Powdered and perfumed the full beeA
Winged heavily across the cloverB
And where the hills were dim with dewC
Purple and blue the west leaned overB
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A willow spray dipped in the streamD
Moving a gleam of silver ringingE
And by a finny creek a maidF
Filled all the shade with softest singingE
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Listening my heart and soul at strifeG
On the edge of life I seemed to hover '-
For I knew my love had come at lastH
That my joy was past and my gladness overB
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I tiptoed gently up and stoopedI
Above her looped and shining tressesJ
And asked her of her kin and nameK
And why she came from fairy placesL
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She told me of a sunny coastM
Beyond the most adventurous sailorB
Where she had spent a thousand yearsN
Out of the fears that now assail herB
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And there she told me honey dropsO
Out of the tops of ash and willowP
And in the mellow shadow SleepQ
Doth sweetly keep her poppy pillowP
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Nor Autumn with her brown line marksR
The time of larks the length of rosesJ
But song time there is over neverB
Nor flower time ever ever closesJ
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And wildly through uncurling fernsS
Fast water turns down valleys singingE
Filling with scented winds the dalesT
Setting the bells of sleep a ringingE
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And when the thin moon lowly sinks '-
Through cloudy chinks a silver gloryA
Lingers upon the left of nightU
Till dawn delights the meadows hoaryA
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And by the lakes the skies are whiteU
Oh the delight when swans are comingE
Among the flowers sweet joy bells pealV
And quick bees wheel in drowsy hummingE
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The squirrel leaves her dusty houseW
And in the boughs makes fearless gambolV
And falling down in fire drops redX
The fruit is shed from every brambleV
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Then gathered all about the treesY
Glad galaxies of youth are dancingE
Treading the perfume of the flowersZ
Filling the hours with mazy glancingE
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And when the dance is done the treesY
Are left to Peace and the brown woodpeckerB
And on the western slopes of skyA2
The day's blue eye begins to flickerB
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But at the sighing of the leavesB2
When all earth grieves for lights departedC2
An ancient and a sad desireB
Steals in to tire the human heartedC2
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No fairy aid can save them nowD2
Nor turn their prow upon the oceanE2
The hundred years that missed each heartF2
Above them start their wheels in motionE2
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And so our loves are lost she sighedG2
And far and wide we seek new treasureB
For who on Time or Timeless hillsH2
Can live the ills of loveless leisureB
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' Fairer than Usna's youngest sonE2
my poor one what flower bed holds youC
Or wrecked upon the shores of homeI2
What wave of foam with white enfolds youC
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' You rode with kings on hills of greenJ2
And lovely queens have served you banquetK2
Sweet wine from berries bruised they broughtL2
And shyly sought the lips which drank itM2
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' But in your dim grave of the seaA
There shall not be a friend to love youC
And ever heedless of your lossN2
The earth ships cross the storms above youC
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' And still the chase goes on and stillV
The wine shall spill and vacant placesL
Be given over to the newC
As love untrue keeps changing facesL
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' And I must wander with my songO2
Far from the young till Love returningE
Brings me the beautiful rewardP2
Of some heart stirred by my long yearning '-
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Friend have you heard a bird lamentQ2
When sleet is sent for April weatherB
As beautiful she told her griefR2
As down through leaf and flower I led herB
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And friend could I remain unstirredQ2
Without a word for such a sorrowP
Say can the lark forget the cloudQ2
When poppies shroud the seeded furrowP
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Like a poor widow whose late griefR2
Seeks for relief in lonely byewaysL
The moon companionless and dimS2
Took her dull rim through starless highwaysL
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I was too weak with dreams to feelV
Enchantment steal with guilt upon meA
She slipped a flower upon the windQ2
And laughed to find how she had won meA
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From hill to hill from land to landQ2
Her lovely hand is beckoning for meA
I follow on through dangerous zonesL
Cross dead men's bones and oceans stormyA
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Some day I know she'll wait at lastQ2
And lock me fast in white embracesL
And down mysterious ways of loveT2
We two shall move to fairy placesL

Francis Ledwidge



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