Poet Francis Ledwidge

Francis Ledwidge

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To One Who Comes Now And Then Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI CJCJ KLKL MNMN

When you come in it seems a brighter fireA
Crackles upon the hearth invitinglyB
The household routine which was wont to tireA
Grows full of noveltyC
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You sit upon our home upholstered chairD
And talk of matters wonderful and strangeE
Of books and travel customs old which dareD
The gods of Time and ChangeE
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Till we with inner word our care refuteF
Laughing that this our bosoms yet assailsG
While there are maidens dancing to a fluteF
In Andalusian valesG
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And sometimes from my shelf of poems you takeH
And secret meanings to our hearts discloseI
As when the winds of June the mid bush shakeH
We see the hidden roseI
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And when the shadows muster and each treeC
A moment flutters full of shutting wingsJ
You take the fiddle and mysteriouslyC
Wake wonders on the stringsJ
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And in my garden grey with misty flowersK
Low echoes fainter than a beetle's hornL
Fill all the corners with it like sweet showersK
Of bells in the owl's mornL
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Come often friend with welcome and surpriseM
We'll greet you from the sea or from the townN
Come when you like and from whatever skiesM
Above you smile or frownN

Francis Ledwidge



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