A Saint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DBEB FBBG BHIJ BKBL MBNO PBBB BQLB| THE stir of children with fresh dresses on | A |
| And men who meet and say unguarded words | B |
| And women from the coops | B |
| Of drudgeries released | C |
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| And standing at their doors to watch go by | D |
| Small pomps with pennons and with first spring flowers | B |
| And lifted over them | E |
| Your name that sanctifies | B |
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| But you when you came here it was to front | F |
| Hard handed men and trouble them for dues | B |
| To stay the fatherless | B |
| Portion of what they ploughed | G |
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| To claim resource from them whose own resource | B |
| Was pittance this you came here to do | H |
| And give for what you gained | I |
| Your season of bright youth | J |
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| The hunt upon the mountain side the dance | B |
| Down in the vale the whisper at the door | K |
| Kiss on unstaying lips | B |
| That afterwards would stay | L |
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| Music you could have made would make our land | M |
| Of noble note and join our different breeds | B |
| And make your name endeared | N |
| On roadside and in hall | O |
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| All this was changed as when the warm stream | P |
| Setting through ocean toward vine bearing isles | B |
| Turns its flow toward capes | B |
| Where heather only thrives | B |
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| That day that was of battles and hard pledges | B |
| Has all been changed into this whitened morn | Q |
| Music and holiday | L |
| And benediction bells | B |
Padraic Colum
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