To The Poet-priest Ryan. In Acknowledgment Of A Copy Of His Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEE FGFGHI JKLKMM N COCOPP N QRQRST| Himself I read beneath the words he writes | A |
| I may come back and sing again RYAN | B |
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| I | - |
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| This Bard's to me a whole souled man | C |
| In honesty and might | D |
| For when he sees Wrong in the van | C |
| He leaps like any Knight | D |
| To horse and charging on the wrong | E |
| Smites it with the great sword of Song | E |
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| II | - |
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| Beneath the cassock of the Priest | F |
| There throbs another heart | G |
| Another but 'tis not the least | F |
| Which in his Lays takes part | G |
| So that 'mid clash of Swords and Spears | H |
| There is no lack of Pity's tears | I |
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| III | - |
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| This other heart is brave and soft | J |
| As such hearts always are | K |
| And plumes itself a bird aloft | L |
| When Morning's gates unbar | K |
| Till high it soars above the sod | M |
| Bathed in the very light of God | M |
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| IV | N |
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| Woman and Soldier Priest and Man | C |
| I find within these Lays | O |
| And the closer still th' Verse I scan | C |
| The more I see to praise | O |
| Some of these Lyrics shower down | P |
| The glories of the Cross and Crown | P |
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| V | N |
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| To thee oh Bard my head I bow | Q |
| As I'd not to a King | R |
| And my last word writ here and now | Q |
| Is not a little thing | R |
| Recall the promise of thy strain | S |
| Thou art to come and sing again | T |
James Barron Hope
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