A Poor Scholar Of The 'forties Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDD EFGFGHH IJIJK JLMLMNO| MY eyelids red and heavy arc | A |
| With bending o'er the smold'ring peat | B |
| I know the Aeneid now by heart | C |
| My Virgil read in cold and heat | B |
| In loneliness and hunger smart | C |
| And I know Homer too I ween | D |
| As Munster poets know Ossian | D |
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| And I must walk this road that winds | E |
| Twixt bog and bog while east there lies | F |
| A city with its men and books | G |
| With treasures open to the wise | F |
| Heart words from equals comrade looks | G |
| Down here they have but tale and song | H |
| They talk Repeal the whole night long | H |
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| 'You teach Greek verbs and Latin nouns ' | - |
| The dreamer of Young Ireland said | I |
| 'You do not hear the muffled call | J |
| The sword being forged the far off tread | I |
| Of hosts to meet as Gael and Gall | J |
| What good to us your wisdom store | K |
| Your Latin verse your Grecian lore ' | - |
| And what to me is Gael or Gall | J |
| Less than the Latin or the Greek | L |
| I teach these by the dim rush light | M |
| In smoky cabins night and week | L |
| But what avail my teaching slight | M |
| Years hence in rustic speech a phrase | N |
| As in wild earth a Grecian vase | O |
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