To An Old Quill Of Lord Dunsany's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDBD DEDD BFBF GHGH DDDD DIDI DDDD JKIK| Before you leave my hands' abuses | A |
| To lie where many odd things meet you | B |
| Neglected darkling of the Muses | C |
| I the last of singers greet you | B |
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| Snug in some white wing they found you | B |
| On the Common bleak and muddy | D |
| Noisy goslings gobbling round you | B |
| In the pools of sunset ruddy | D |
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| Have you sighed in wings untravelled | D |
| For the heights where others view the | E |
| Bluer widths of heaven and marvelled | D |
| At the utmost top of Beauty | D |
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| No it cannot be the soul you | B |
| Sigh with craves nor begs of us | F |
| From such heights a poet stole you | B |
| From a wing of Pegasus | F |
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| You have been where gods were sleeping | G |
| In the dawn of new creations | H |
| Ere they woke to woman's weeping | G |
| At the broken thrones of nations | H |
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| You have seen this old world shattered | D |
| By old gods it disappointed | D |
| Lying up in darkness battered | D |
| By wild comets unanointed | D |
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| But for Beauty unmolested | D |
| Have you still the sighing olden | I |
| I know mountains heather crested | D |
| Waters white and waters golden | I |
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| There I'd keep you in the lowly | D |
| Beauty haunts of bird and poet | D |
| Sailing in a wing the holy | D |
| Silences of lakes below it | D |
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| But I leave you by where no man | J |
| Finds you when I too be gone | K |
| From the puddles on this common | I |
| Over the dark Rubicon | K |
Francis Ledwidge
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