The Watchers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLM NONO PAQA| THE cottages all lie asleep | A |
| The sheep and lambs are folded in | B |
| Winged sentinels the vale will keep | A |
| Until the hours of life begin | B |
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| The children with their prayers all said | C |
| Sleep until cockcrow shall awake | D |
| The gardens in their gold and red | C |
| And robins in the bush and brake | D |
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| The fields of harvest golden white | E |
| The fields of pasture rich and green | F |
| Sleep on nor fear the kindly night | E |
| The watching mountains set between | F |
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| The river sings its sleepy song | G |
| Nought stirs the wakeful owl beside | H |
| Our peace is builded sure and strong | G |
| No evil beast can creep inside | H |
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| St Patrick and St Brigid hold | I |
| The vale its little houses all | J |
| While men at arms in white and gold | I |
| Glide swiftly by the outer wall | J |
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| St Brendan and St Kevin pluck | K |
| The robes of God that He may hear | L |
| And Colum 'Keep the Irish flock | M |
| So that no shame or sin come near ' | - |
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| What news of Belgian folk to day | N |
| How fare the village and the town | O |
| O Belgium's all on fire they say | N |
| And all her towers are toppling down | O |
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| What are her angels doing then | P |
| And are the Belgian saints asleep | A |
| That in this night of dule and pain | Q |
| The Belgians mourn the Belgians weep | A |
Katharine Tynan
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