Fuchsia Hedges In Connacht Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGBHIB JKBLBBMBBBI THINK some saint of Eirinn wandering far | A |
Found you and brought you here Demoiselles | B |
For so I greet you in this alien air | C |
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And like those maidens who were only known | D |
In their own land as daughters of the King | E |
Children of Charlemagne | F |
You have by following that pilgrim saint | G |
Become high vot resses | B |
You have made your palace beauty dedicate | H |
And your pomp serviceable | I |
You stand beside our folds | B |
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I think you came from some old Roman land | J |
Most alien but most Catholic are you | K |
Your purple is the purple that enfolds | B |
In Passion Week the Shrine | L |
Your scarlet is the scarlet of the wounds | B |
You bring before our walls before our doors | B |
Lamps of the Sanctuary | M |
And in this stony place | B |
The time the robin sings | B |
Through your bells rings the Angelus | B |
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