Queen Gormlai Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GCHCCIJI KLGLKKFK KMLNGOPO LQRQSECE KKJKKTQT| NOT fingers that e'er felt | A |
| Fine things within their hold | B |
| Drew needles in and through | C |
| And smoothed out the fold | B |
| And put the hodden patch | D |
| Upon the patch of grey | E |
| Unseemly is the garb | F |
| That's for my back to day | E |
| - | |
| O skinflint woman Mor | G |
| Who knows that I speak true | C |
| I had women once | H |
| A queen's retinue | C |
| And they were ones who knew | C |
| The raiment of a queen | I |
| Their thoughts were on my tire | J |
| Their minds were on my mien | I |
| - | |
| Light of hand and apt | K |
| And companionable | L |
| Seven score women Mor | G |
| I had at my call | L |
| Who am to day begrudged | K |
| The blink of candle light | K |
| To put it on the garb | F |
| That leaves me misbedight | K |
| - | |
| I wore a blue Norse hood | K |
| The time I watched the turns | M |
| And feats of Clann O'Neill | L |
| We quaffed from goblet horns | N |
| A crimson cloak I wore | G |
| When with Niall the King | O |
| I watched the horses race | P |
| At Limerick in the Spring | O |
| - | |
| In Tara of King Niall | L |
| The gold was round the wine | Q |
| And I was given the cup | R |
| A furze bright dress was mine | Q |
| And now this clout to wear | S |
| Where I rise to sup whey | E |
| With root like stitches through | C |
| The hodden on the grey | E |
| - | |
| No more upon the board | K |
| Candles for kings are lit | K |
| No more can I bid her | J |
| And her bring gowning fit | K |
| The bramble is no friend | K |
| It pulls at me and drags | T |
| The thorny ground is mine | Q |
| Where briars tear my rags | T |
Padraic Colum
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