Honoro Butler And Lord Kenmare (1720) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHAA IJIJKK LFLFAA AMAMJJ NFNFFF FJFJAA| In bloom and bud the bees are busily | A |
| Storing against the winter their sweet hoard | B |
| That shall be rifled ere the autumn be | A |
| Past or the winter comes with silver sword | B |
| To fright the bees until the merry round | C |
| Tells them that sweets again are to be found | C |
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| The lusty tide is flowing by in ease | D |
| Telling of joy along its brimming way | E |
| Far in its waters is an isle of trees | D |
| Whereto the sun will go at end of day | E |
| As who in secret place and dear is hid | F |
| And scarce can rouse him thence tho' he be chid | F |
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| Now justice comes all trouble to repair | G |
| And cheeks that had been wan are coloured well | H |
| The untilled moor is comely and the air | G |
| Hath a great round of song from bird in dell | H |
| And bird on wing and bird on forest tree | A |
| And from each place and space where bird may be | A |
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| The languid are made strong the strong grow stronger | I |
| There is no grievance here and no distress | J |
| The woeful are not woeful any longer | I |
| The rose hath put on her a finer dress | J |
| And every girl to bloom adds bloom again | K |
| And every man hath heart beyond all men | K |
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| For the Star of Munster Pearl of the Golden Bough | L |
| Comes joyfully this day of days to wed | F |
| Her choice of all whom fame hath loved till now | L |
| And who chose her from all that love instead | F |
| The Joy of the Flock the Bud of the Branch is she | A |
| Crown of the Irish Pride and Chivalry | A |
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| He is a chief and prince well famed is he | A |
| The love of thousands unto him does run | M |
| And all days were before and all will be | A |
| He was and will be loved by every one | M |
| And she and he be loved by all no less | J |
| Who courage love and love and loveliness | J |
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| The nobles of the province take their wine | N |
| And drink a merry health to groom and bride | F |
| They shall be drunken ere the sun decline | N |
| And all their merrymaking lay aside | F |
| In deep sweet sleep that seals a merry day | F |
| Until the dawn when they shall ride away | F |
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| Leaving those two who now are one behind | F |
| O Moon pour on the silence all thy beams | J |
| And for this night be beautiful and kind | F |
| Weave in their sleep thy best and dearest dreams | J |
| And fortune them in their own land to be | A |
| Safe from all evil chance and from all enmity | A |
James Stephens
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