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 Q2LT2LPowdered and perfumed the full bee | A |
Winged heavily across the clover | B |
And where the hills were dim with dew | C |
Purple and blue the west leaned over | B |
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A willow spray dipped in the stream | D |
Moving a gleam of silver ringing | E |
And by a finny creek a maid | F |
Filled all the shade with softest singing | E |
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Listening my heart and soul at strife | G |
On the edge of life I seemed to hover ' | - |
For I knew my love had come at last | H |
That my joy was past and my gladness over | B |
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I tiptoed gently up and stooped | I |
Above her looped and shining tresses | J |
And asked her of her kin and name | K |
And why she came from fairy places | L |
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She told me of a sunny coast | M |
Beyond the most adventurous sailor | B |
Where she had spent a thousand years | N |
Out of the fears that now assail her | B |
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And there she told me honey drops | O |
Out of the tops of ash and willow | P |
And in the mellow shadow Sleep | Q |
Doth sweetly keep her poppy pillow | P |
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Nor Autumn with her brown line marks | R |
The time of larks the length of roses | J |
But song time there is over never | B |
Nor flower time ever ever closes | J |
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And wildly through uncurling ferns | S |
Fast water turns down valleys singing | E |
Filling with scented winds the dales | T |
Setting the bells of sleep a ringing | E |
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And when the thin moon lowly sinks ' | - |
Through cloudy chinks a silver glory | A |
Lingers upon the left of night | U |
Till dawn delights the meadows hoary | A |
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And by the lakes the skies are white | U |
Oh the delight when swans are coming | E |
Among the flowers sweet joy bells peal | V |
And quick bees wheel in drowsy humming | E |
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The squirrel leaves her dusty house | W |
And in the boughs makes fearless gambol | V |
And falling down in fire drops red | X |
The fruit is shed from every bramble | V |
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Then gathered all about the trees | Y |
Glad galaxies of youth are dancing | E |
Treading the perfume of the flowers | Z |
Filling the hours with mazy glancing | E |
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And when the dance is done the trees | Y |
Are left to Peace and the brown woodpecker | B |
And on the western slopes of sky | A2 |
The day's blue eye begins to flicker | B |
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But at the sighing of the leaves | B2 |
When all earth grieves for lights departed | C2 |
An ancient and a sad desire | B |
Steals in to tire the human hearted | C2 |
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No fairy aid can save them now | D2 |
Nor turn their prow upon the ocean | E2 |
The hundred years that missed each heart | F2 |
Above them start their wheels in motion | E2 |
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And so our loves are lost she sighed | G2 |
And far and wide we seek new treasure | B |
For who on Time or Timeless hills | H2 |
Can live the ills of loveless leisure | B |
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' Fairer than Usna's youngest son | E2 |
my poor one what flower bed holds you | C |
Or wrecked upon the shores of home | I2 |
What wave of foam with white enfolds you | C |
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' You rode with kings on hills of green | J2 |
And lovely queens have served you banquet | K2 |
Sweet wine from berries bruised they brought | L2 |
And shyly sought the lips which drank it | M2 |
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' But in your dim grave of the sea | A |
There shall not be a friend to love you | C |
And ever heedless of your loss | N2 |
The earth ships cross the storms above you | C |
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' And still the chase goes on and still | V |
The wine shall spill and vacant places | L |
Be given over to the new | C |
As love untrue keeps changing faces | L |
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' And I must wander with my song | O2 |
Far from the young till Love returning | E |
Brings me the beautiful reward | P2 |
Of some heart stirred by my long yearning ' | - |
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Friend have you heard a bird lament | Q2 |
When sleet is sent for April weather | B |
As beautiful she told her grief | R2 |
As down through leaf and flower I led her | B |
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And friend could I remain unstirred | Q2 |
Without a word for such a sorrow | P |
Say can the lark forget the cloud | Q2 |
When poppies shroud the seeded furrow | P |
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Like a poor widow whose late grief | R2 |
Seeks for relief in lonely byeways | L |
The moon companionless and dim | S2 |
Took her dull rim through starless highways | L |
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I was too weak with dreams to feel | V |
Enchantment steal with guilt upon me | A |
She slipped a flower upon the wind | Q2 |
And laughed to find how she had won me | A |
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From hill to hill from land to land | Q2 |
Her lovely hand is beckoning for me | A |
I follow on through dangerous zones | L |
Cross dead men's bones and oceans stormy | A |
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Some day I know she'll wait at last | Q2 |
And lock me fast in white embraces | L |
And down mysterious ways of love | T2 |
We two shall move to fairy places | L |
Francis Ledwidge
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