Dedication: To M. C. M. C. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADEF GHHIHJKEHL MNOA| THE well | A |
| They come to it and take | B |
| Their cupful or their palmful out of it | C |
| - | |
| The well | A |
| Stones are around it and an elder bush | D |
| Is there a high rowan tree and so | E |
| The well is marked | F |
| - | |
| Who knows | G |
| Whence come the waters Through what passages | H |
| Beneath From what high tors | H |
| Where forests are Forests dripping rain | I |
| Branches pouring to the ground trunks barks roots | H |
| Letting the streamlets down through the dark earth | J |
| The water flows and in that secret flood | K |
| That's called a spring that finds this little hollow | E |
| Who knows | H |
| Whence come the waters that fill cup and palm | L |
| - | |
| Sweetheart and comrade I give you | M |
| The waters' marches and the forest's bound | N |
| The valley filling cloud the trees that set | O |
| The rains beneath their roots out of this well | A |
Padraic Colum
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