Shancoduff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGCHI BJKCLC| My black hills have never seen the sun rising | A |
| Eternally they look north towards Armagh | B |
| Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been | C |
| Incurious as my black hills that are happy | D |
| When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel | E |
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| My hills hoard the bright shillings of March | F |
| While the sun searches in every pocket | G |
| They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn | C |
| With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves | H |
| In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage | I |
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| The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff | B |
| While the cattle drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush | J |
| Look up and say Who owns them hungry hills | K |
| That the water hen and snipe must have forsaken | C |
| A poet Then by heavens he must be poor | L |
| I hear and is my heart not badly shaken | C |
Patrick Kavanagh
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