Iona: The Graves Of The Kings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDE FGH IJK| I wish not to lie here | A |
| There's hardly a plot of earth not blessed for burial but here | A |
| One might dream badly | B |
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| In beautiful seas a beautiful | C |
| And sainted island but the dark earth so shallow on the rock | D |
| Gorged with bad meat | E |
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| Kings buried in the lee of the saint | F |
| Kings of fierce Norway blood boltered Scotland bitterly dreaming | G |
| Treacherous Ireland | H |
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| Imagine what delusions of grandeur | I |
| What suspicion agonized eyes what jellies of arrogance and terror | J |
| This earth has absorbed | K |
Robinson Jeffers
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