Carrickfergus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDAD EFGF HIJI GKDL AMAM AAAA| I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries | A |
| To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams | A |
| Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim | B |
| Where the bottle neck harbour collects the mud which jams | A |
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| The little boats beneath the Norman castle | C |
| The pier shining with lumps of crystal salt | D |
| The Scotch Quarter was a line of residential houses | A |
| But the Irish Quarter was a slum for the blind and halt | D |
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| The brook ran yellow from the factory stinking of chlorine | E |
| The yarn milled called its funeral cry at noon | F |
| Our lights looked over the Lough to the lights of Bangor | G |
| Under the peacock aura of a drowning moon | F |
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| The Norman walled this town against the country | H |
| To stop his ears to the yelping of his slave | I |
| And built a church in the form of a cross but denoting | J |
| The List of Christ on the cross in the angle of the nave | I |
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| I was the rector's son born to the Anglican order | G |
| Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor | K |
| The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept | D |
| With ruffs about their necks their portion sure | L |
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| The war came and a huge camp of soldiers | A |
| Grew from the ground in sight of our house with long | M |
| Dummies hanging from gibbets for bayonet practice | A |
| And the sentry's challenge echoing all day long | M |
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| I went to school in Dorset the world of parents | A |
| Contracted into a puppet world of sons | A |
| Far from the mill girls the smell of porter the salt mines | A |
| And the soldiers with their guns | A |
Louis Macneice
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