For The Moore Centennial Celebration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDBD EFEF EEEE GHGH BIBI JKLK GMGM A GNGO PEPE PKPK BQBQ GHGH RERE JSJS JNJO| I | A |
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| ENCHANTER of Erin whose magic has bound us | B |
| Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim | C |
| Entranced while it summons the phantoms around us | B |
| That blush into life at the sound of thy name | C |
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| The tell tales of memory wake from their slumbers | B |
| I hear the old song with its tender refrain | D |
| What passion lies hid in those honey voiced numbers | B |
| What perfume of youth in each exquisite strain | D |
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| The home ot my childhood comes back as a vision | E |
| Hark Hark A soft chord from its song haunted room | F |
| 'T is a morning of May when the air is Elysian | E |
| The syringa in bud and the lilac in bloom | F |
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| We are clustered around the Clementi piano | E |
| There were six of us then there are two of us now | E |
| She is singing the girl with the silver soprano | E |
| How The Lord of the Valley was false to his vow | E |
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| Let Erin remember the echoes are calling | G |
| Through The Vale of Avoca the waters are rolled | H |
| The Exile laments while the night dews are falling | G |
| The Morning of Life dawns again as of old | H |
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| But ah those warm love songs of fresh adolescence | B |
| Around us such raptures celestial they flung | I |
| That it seemed as if Paradise breathed its quintessence | B |
| Through the seraph toned lips of the maiden that sung | I |
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| Long hushed are the chords that my boyhood enchanted | J |
| As when the smooth wave by the angel was stirred | K |
| Yet still with their music is memory haunted | L |
| And oft in my dreams are their melodies heard | K |
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| I feel like the priest to his altar returning | G |
| The crowd that was kneeling no longer is there | M |
| The flame has died down but the brands are still burning | G |
| And sandal and cinnamon sweeten the air | M |
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| II | A |
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| The veil for her bridal young Summer is weaving | G |
| In her azure domed hall with its tapestried floor | N |
| And Spring the last tear drop of May dew is leaving | G |
| On the daisy of Burns and the shamrock of Moore | O |
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| How like how unlike as we view them together | P |
| The song of the minstrels whose record we scan | E |
| One fresh as the breeze blowing over the heather | P |
| One sweet as the breath from an odalisque's fan | E |
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| Ah passion can glow mid a palace's splendor | P |
| The cage does not alter the song of ths bird | K |
| And the curtain of silk has known whispers as tender | P |
| As ever the blossoming hawthorn has heard | K |
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| No fear lest the step of the soft slippered Graces | B |
| Should fright the young Loves from their warm little nest | Q |
| For the heart of a queen under jewels and laces | B |
| Beats time with the pulse in the peasant girl's breast | Q |
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| Thrice welcome each gift of kind Nature's bestowing | G |
| Her fountain heeds little the goblet we hold | H |
| Alike when its musical waters are flowing | G |
| The shell from the seaside the chalice of gold | H |
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| The twins of the lyre to her voices had listened | R |
| Both laid their best gifts upon Liberty's shrine | E |
| For Coila's loved minstrel the holly wreath glistened | R |
| For Erin's the rose and the myrtle entwine | E |
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| And while the fresh blossoms of summer are braided | J |
| For the sea girdled stream silvered lake jewelled isle | S |
| While her mantle of verdure is woven unfaded | J |
| While Shannon and Liffey shall dimple and smile | S |
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| The land where the staff of Saint Patrick was planted | J |
| Where the shamrock grows green from the cliffs to the shore | N |
| The land of fair maidens and heroes undaunted | J |
| Shall wreathe her bright harp with the garlands of Moore | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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