On Raglan Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB| On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew | A |
| That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue | A |
| I saw the danger yet I walked along the enchanted way | B |
| And I said let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day | B |
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| On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge | C |
| Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge | C |
| The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay | B |
| O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away | B |
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| I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known | D |
| To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone | D |
| And word and tint I did not stint for I gave her poems to say | B |
| With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May | B |
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| On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now | E |
| Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow | E |
| That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay | B |
| When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day | B |
Patrick Kavanagh
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