The Grave Of Rury Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK LJMJ JNJN GOPO| Clear as air the western waters | A |
| evermore their sweet unchanging song | B |
| Murmur in their stony channels | C |
| round O'Conor's sepulchre in Cong | B |
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| Crownless hopeless here he lingered | D |
| year on year went by him like a dream | E |
| While the far off roar of conquest | F |
| murmured faintly like the singing stream | E |
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| Here he died and here they tombed him | G |
| men of Fechin chanting round his grave | H |
| Did they know ah did they know it | I |
| what they buried by the babbling wave | H |
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| Now above the sleep of Rury | J |
| holy things and great have passed away | K |
| Stone by stone the stately Abbey | L |
| falls and fades in passionless decay | K |
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| Darkly grows the quiet ivy | L |
| pale the broken arches glimmer through | J |
| Dark upon the cloister garden | M |
| dreams the shadow of the ancient yew | J |
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| Through the roofless aisles the verdure | J |
| flows the meadow sweet and fox glove bloom | N |
| Earth the mother and consoler | J |
| winds soft arms about the lonely tomb | N |
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| Peace and holy gloom possess him | G |
| last of Gaelic monarchs of the Gael | O |
| Slumbering by the young eternal | P |
| river voices of the western vale | O |
T. W. Rolleston
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