The Others Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEED FGHG IJIJ KLML NOOO OPIP CQOQ RDRD SLTL DEED| From our hidden places | A |
| By a secret path | B |
| We come in the moonlight | C |
| To the side of the green rath | B |
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| There the night through | D |
| We take our pleasure | E |
| Dancing to such a measure | E |
| As earth never knew | D |
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| To song and dance | F |
| And lilt without a name | G |
| So sweetly breathed | H |
| 'Twould put a bird to shame | G |
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| And many a young maiden | I |
| Is there of mortal birth | J |
| Her young eyes laden | I |
| With dreams of earth | J |
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| And many a youth entranced | K |
| Moves slowly in the wildered round | L |
| His brave lost feet enchanted | M |
| With the rhythm of faery sound | L |
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| Music so forest wild | N |
| And piercing sweet would bring | O |
| Silence on blackbirds singing | O |
| Their best in the ear of spring | O |
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| And now they pause in their dancing | O |
| And look with troubled eyes | P |
| Earth straying children | I |
| With sudden memory wise | P |
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| They pause and their eyes in the moonlight | C |
| With fairy wisdom cold | Q |
| Grow dim and a thought goes fluttering | O |
| In the hearts no longer old | Q |
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| And then the dream forsakes them | R |
| And sighing they turn anew | D |
| As the whispering music takes them | R |
| To the dance of the elfin crew | D |
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| O many a thrush and a blackbird | S |
| Would fall to the dewy ground | L |
| And pine away in silence | T |
| For envy of such a sound | L |
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| So the night through | D |
| In our sad pleasure | E |
| We dance to many a measure | E |
| That earth never knew | D |
Seumas O'sullivan
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