An Idyll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG AABBYou stay for a while beside me with your beauty young and rare | A |
Though your light limbs are as limber as the foal's that follows the mare | A |
Brow fair and young and tender where thought has scarce begun | B |
Hair bright as the breast of the eagle when he strains up to the sun | B |
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In the space of a broken castle I found you on a day | C |
When the call of the new come cuckoo went with me all the way | C |
You stood by un mortised stones that were rough and black with age | D |
The fawn beloved of the hunter in the panther's broken cage | D |
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And we went down together by paths your childhood knew | E |
Remote you went beside me like the spirit of the dew | E |
Hard were the hedgerows still sloe bloom was their scanty dower | F |
You slipped it within your bosom the bloom that scarce is flower | G |
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And now you stay beside me with your beauty young and rare | A |
Though your light limbs are as limber as the foal's that follows the mare | A |
Brow fair and young and tender where thought has scarce begun | B |
Hair bright as the breast of the eagle when he strains up to the sun | B |
Padraic Colum
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