Advent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBD EEFEEDD EEEEGDCHIDIDAA DWe have tested and tasted too much lover | A |
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder | A |
But here in the Advent darkened room | B |
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea | C |
Of penance will charm back the luxury | C |
Of a child's soul we'll return to Doom | B |
The knowledge we stole but could not use | D |
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And the newness that was in every stale thing | E |
When we looked at it as children the spirit shocking | E |
Wonder in a black slanting Ulster hill | F |
Or the prophetic astonishment in the tedious talking | E |
Of an old fool will awake for us and bring | E |
You and me to the yard gate to watch the whins | D |
And the bog holes cart tracks old stables where Time begins | D |
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O after Christmas we'll have no need to go searching | E |
For the difference that sets an old phrase burning | E |
We'll hear it in the whispered argument of a churning | E |
Or in the streets where the village boys are lurching | E |
And we'll hear it among decent men too | G |
Who barrow dung in gardens under trees | D |
Wherever life pours ordinary plenty | C |
Won't we be rich my love and I and | H |
God we shall not ask for reason's payment | I |
The why of heart breaking strangeness in dreeping hedges | D |
Nor analyse God's breath in common statement | I |
We have thrown into the dust bin the clay minted wages | D |
Of pleasure knowledge and the conscious hour | A |
And Christ comes with a January flower | A |
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Submitted by Andrew Mayers | D |
Patrick Kavanagh
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Padraic Sammon: Kavanagh was one of the finest.The first 2 lines say it all about life...if one is inclined to be self-indulgent...which is a great way to live but life gets boring in the end..
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