The Rune-master Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECF GHDIAJ KLMNDLMOLPQRLL AMSGTEUMVGGM LMMWMDMU XMYLGDZ| ARCH SCHOLAR they'll call you | A |
| Kuno Mayer | B |
| Who know the word | C |
| Behind the word | C |
| The men of learning | D |
| But who will tell them | E |
| Of the blackbird | C |
| That your heart held | F |
| - | |
| On an old thorn tree | G |
| By an ancient rath | H |
| You heard him sing | D |
| And with runes you charmed him | I |
| Till he stayed with you | A |
| Giving clear song | J |
| - | |
| He sang o'er all | K |
| That Maravaun | L |
| Told King Guire | M |
| And he told you how | N |
| Bran heard the singing | D |
| Of a lovely woman | L |
| And sailed for Faerie | M |
| And of how slain princes | O |
| Kept tryst with women | L |
| Loved beyond | P |
| The pain of death | Q |
| In days when still | R |
| The boat of Mananaun | L |
| Bore towards Eirinn | L |
| - | |
| Arch scholar they'll call you | A |
| Nay Rune master | M |
| You read in texts | S |
| Not words only | G |
| But runes of old time | T |
| And when you spoke them | E |
| A curlew cried | U |
| Over grass waste Tara | M |
| And a cuckoo called | V |
| From the height of Cashel | G |
| And an eagle flew | G |
| From Emain Macha | M |
| - | |
| Ochone ochone | L |
| That we'll see no more | M |
| In the Eastern or | M |
| The Western World | W |
| Your great head over | M |
| The lectern bending | D |
| Nor hear your lore | M |
| By a pleasant fireside | U |
| - | |
| But the runes you've read | X |
| Have given us more | M |
| Than the sword might win us | Y |
| May kind saints of Eirinn | L |
| Be beside you | G |
| Where birds on the Living | D |
| Tree sing the Hours | Z |
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