Having To Live In The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHHIDHJH KLMNBFHOPQRS| Back once again in wild wet Monaghan | A |
| Exiled from thought and feeling | B |
| A mean brutality reigns | C |
| It is really a horrible position to be in | D |
| And I equate myself with Dante | E |
| And all who have lived outside civilization | F |
| It isn't a question of place but of people | G |
| Wordsworth and Coleridge lived apart from the common man | A |
| Their friends called on them regularly | H |
| Swift is in a somewhat different category | H |
| He was a genuine exile and his heavy heart | I |
| Weighed him down in Dublin | D |
| Yet even he had compensations for in the Deanery | H |
| He received many interesting friends | J |
| And it was the eighteenth century | H |
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| I suppose that having to live | K |
| Among men whose rages | L |
| Are for small wet hills full of stones | M |
| When one man buys a patch and pays a high price for it | N |
| That is not the end of his paying | B |
| Go home and have another bastard shout the children | F |
| Cousin of the underbidder to the young wife of the purchaser | H |
| The first child was born after six months of marriage | O |
| Desperate people desperate animals | P |
| What must happen the poor priest | Q |
| Somewhat educated who has to believe that these people have souls | R |
| As bright as a poet's though I don't mind speak for myself | S |
Patrick Kavanagh
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