The Memory Of Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLK| In the wet dusk silver sweet | A |
| Down the violet scented ways | B |
| As I moved with quiet feet | A |
| I was met by mighty days | B |
| - | |
| On the hedge the hanging dew | C |
| Glassed the eve and stars and skies | D |
| While I gazed a madness grew | C |
| Into thundered battle cries | D |
| - | |
| Where the hawthorn glimmered white | E |
| Flashed the spear and fell the stroke | F |
| Ah what faces pale and bright | E |
| Where the dazzling battle broke | F |
| - | |
| There a hero hearted queen | G |
| With young beauty lit the van | H |
| Gone the darkness flowed between | G |
| All the ancient wars of man | H |
| - | |
| While I paced the valley's gloom | I |
| Where the rabbits pattered near | J |
| Shone a temple and a tomb | I |
| With the legend carven clear | J |
| - | |
| 'Time put by a myriad fates | K |
| That her day might dawn in glory | L |
| Death made wide a million gates | K |
| So to close her tragic story ' | - |
George William Russell
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