Stony Grey Soil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED DFBF GBHB CIAI JKLK GMNM NGAG| O stony grey soil of Monaghan | A |
| The laugh from my love you thieved | B |
| You took the gay child of my passion | C |
| And gave me your clod conceived | B |
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| You clogged the feet of my boyhood | B |
| And I believed that my stumble | D |
| Had the poise and stride of Apollo | E |
| And his voice my thick tongued mumble | D |
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| You told me the plough was immortal | D |
| O green life conquering plough | F |
| The mandril stained your coulter blunted | B |
| In the smooth lea field of my brow | F |
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| You sang on steaming dunghills | G |
| A song of cowards' brood | B |
| You perfumed my clothes with weasel itch | H |
| You fed me on swinish food | B |
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| You flung a ditch on my vision | C |
| Of beauty love and truth | I |
| O stony grey soil of Monaghan | A |
| You burgled my bank of youth | I |
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| Lost the long hours of pleasure | J |
| All the women that love young men | K |
| O can I stilll stroke the monster's back | L |
| Or write with unpoisoned pen | K |
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| His name in these lonely verses | G |
| Or mention the dark fields where | M |
| The first gay flight of my lyric | N |
| Got caught in a peasant's prayer | M |
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| Mullahinsa Drummeril Black Shanco | N |
| Wherever I turn I see | G |
| In the stony grey soil of Monaghan | A |
| Dead loves that were born for me | G |
Patrick Kavanagh
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