Taliesin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GEEH IEEJ KEEL| I have been all men known to history | A |
| Wondering at the world and at time passing | B |
| I have seen evil and the light blessing | B |
| Innocent love under a spring sky | C |
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| I have been Merlin wandering in the woods | D |
| Of a far country where the winds waken | E |
| Unnatural voices my mind broken | E |
| By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage | F |
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| I have been Glyn Dwr set in the vast night | G |
| Scanning the stars for the propitious omen | E |
| A leader of men yet cursed by the crazed women | E |
| Mourning their dead under the same stars | H |
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| I have been Goronwy forced from my own land | I |
| To taste the bitterness of the salt ocean | E |
| I have known exile and a wild passion | E |
| Of longing changing to a cold ache | J |
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| King beggar and fool I have been all by turns | K |
| Knowing the body's sweetness the mind's treason | E |
| Taliesin still I show you a new world risen | E |
| Stubborn with beauty out of the heart's need | L |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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