Deirdre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDE FGH CIJ KLM NON PQP GRP SCT| Do not let any woman read this verse | A |
| It is for men and after them their sons | B |
| And their sons' sons | B |
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| The time comes when our hearts sink utterly | C |
| When we remember Deirdre and her tale | D |
| And that her lips are dust | E |
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| Once she did tread the earth men took her hand | F |
| They looked into her eyes and said their say | G |
| And she replied to them | H |
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| More than a thousand years it is since she | C |
| Was beautiful she trod the waving grass | I |
| She saw the clouds | J |
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| A thousand years The grass is still the same | K |
| The clouds as lovely as they were that time | L |
| When Deirdre was alive | M |
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| But there has never been a woman born | N |
| Who was so beautiful not one so beautiful | O |
| Of all the women born | N |
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| Let all men go apart and mourn together | P |
| No man can ever love her not a man | Q |
| Can ever be her lover | P |
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| No man can bend before her no man say | G |
| What could one say to her There are no words | R |
| That one could say to her | P |
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| Now she is but a story that is told | S |
| Beside the fire No man can ever be | C |
| The friend of that poor queen | T |
James Stephens
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