Clann Cartie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFF EEEEGG HHCEEEEIIEECCJJ| My heart is withered and my health is gone | A |
| For they who were not easy put upon | B |
| Masters of mirth and of fair clemency | C |
| Masters of wealth and gentle charity | C |
| They are all gone Mac Caura Mor is dead | D |
| Mac Caura of the Lee is finished | E |
| Mac Caura of Kanturk joined clay to clay | F |
| And gat him gone and bides as deep as they | F |
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| Their years their gentle deeds their flags are furled | E |
| And deeply down under the stiffened world | E |
| In chests of oaken wood are princes thrust | E |
| To crumble day by day into the dust | E |
| A mouth might puff at nor is left a trace | G |
| Of those who did of grace all that was grace | G |
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| O Wave of Cliona cease thy bellowing | H |
| And let mine ears forget a while to ring | H |
| At thy long lamentable misery | C |
| The great are dead indeed the great are dead | E |
| And I in little time will stoop my head | E |
| And put it under and will be forgot | E |
| With them and be with them and thus be not | E |
| Ease thee cease thy long keening cry no more | I |
| End is and here is end and end is sore | I |
| And to all lamentation be there end | E |
| If I might come on thee O howling friend | E |
| Knowing that sails were drumming on the sea | C |
| Westward to Eir and that help would be | C |
| Trampling for her upon a Spanish deck | J |
| I'd ram thy lamentation down thy neck | J |
James Stephens
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