Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED FGHG IJKJ LCJ CBAB| THE little moths are creeping | A |
| Across the cottage pane | B |
| On the floor the chickens gather | C |
| And they make talk and complain | B |
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| And she sits by the fire | C |
| Who has reared so many men | D |
| Her voice is low like the chickens' | E |
| With the things she says again | D |
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| 'The sons that come back do be restless | F |
| They search for the thing to say | G |
| Then they take thought like the swallows | H |
| And the morrow brings them away | G |
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| In the old old days upon Innish | I |
| The fields were lucky and bright | J |
| And if you lay down you'd be covered | K |
| By the grass of one soft night | J |
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| And doves flew with every burial | L |
| That went to Innishore | C |
| Two white doves with the coffened | J |
| But the doves fly no more ' | - |
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| She speaks and the chickens gather | C |
| And they make talk and complain | B |
| While the little moths are creeping | A |
| Across the cottage pane | B |
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