Nancy Walsh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDC EFEFGHG IJKILKLL MLM| It is not on her gown | A |
| She fears to tread | B |
| It is her hair | C |
| Which tumbles down | A |
| And strays | D |
| About her ways | D |
| That she must care | C |
| - | |
| And she lives nigh this place | E |
| The dead would rise | F |
| If they could see her face | E |
| The dead would rise | F |
| Only to hear her sing | G |
| But death is blind and gives not ear nor eye | H |
| To anything | G |
| - | |
| We would leave behind | I |
| Both wife and child | J |
| And house and home | K |
| And wander blind | I |
| And wander thus | L |
| And ever roam | K |
| If she would come to us | L |
| In Erris | L |
| - | |
| Softly she said to me | M |
| Be patient till the night comes | L |
| And I will go with thee | M |
James Stephens
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