The Wings Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJB BJJKKLLMMBBNNJJ| I will row my boat on Muckross Lake when the grey of the dove | A |
| Comes down at the end of the day and a quiet like prayer | B |
| Grows soft in your eyes and among your fluttering hair | B |
| The red of the sun is mixed with the red of your cheek | C |
| I will row you O boat of my heart till our mouths have forgotten to speak | C |
| In the silence of love broken only by trout that spring | D |
| And are gone like a fairy's finger that casts a ring | D |
| With the luck of the world for the hand that can hold it fast | E |
| I will rest on my oars my eyes on your eyes till our thoughts have passed | E |
| From the lake and the sky and the rings of the jumping fish | F |
| Till our ears are filled from the reeds with a sudden swish | F |
| And a sound like the beating of flails in the time of corn | G |
| We shall hold our breath while a wonderful thing is born | G |
| From the songs that were chanted by bards in the days gone by | H |
| For a wild white swan shall be leaving the lake for the sky | H |
| With the curve of her neck stretched out in a silver spear | I |
| Oh then when the creak of her wings shall have brought her near | I |
| We shall hear again a swish and a beating of flails | J |
| And a creaking of oars and a sound like the wind in sails | J |
| As the mate of her heart shall follow her into the air | B |
| O wings of my soul we shall think of Angus and Caer | B |
| And Etain and Midir that were changed into wild white swans | J |
| To fly round the ring of the heavens through the dusks and the dawns | J |
| Unseen by all but true lovers till judgment day | K |
| Because they had loved for love only O love I will say | K |
| For a woman and man with eternity ringing them round | L |
| And the heavens above and below them a poor thing it is to be bound | L |
| To four low walls that will spill like a pedlar's pack | M |
| And a quilt that will run into holes and a churn that will dry and crack | M |
| Oh better than these a dream in the night or our heart's mute prayer | B |
| That O'Donoghue the enchanted man should pass between water and air | B |
| And say I will change them each to a wild white swan | N |
| Like the lovers Angus and Midir and their loved ones Caer and Etain | N |
| Because they have loved for love only and have searched through the shadows of things | J |
| For the Heart of all hearts through the fire of love and the wine of love and the wings | J |
James H. Cousins
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