Sweet Innisfallen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE FGHG IJKJ LGLG MGMG CNCO PBPB| Sweet Innisfallen fare thee well | A |
| May calm and sunshine long be thine | B |
| How fair thou art let others tell | A |
| To feel how fair shall long be mine | B |
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| Sweet Innisfallen long shall dwell | A |
| In memory's dream that sunny smile | C |
| Which o'er thee on that evening fell | A |
| When first I saw thy fairy isle | C |
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| 'Twas light indeed too blest for one | D |
| Who had to turn to paths of care | E |
| Through crowded haunts again to run | D |
| And leave thee bright and silent there | E |
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| No more unto thy shores to come | F |
| But on the world's rude ocean tost | G |
| Dream of thee sometimes as a home | H |
| Of sunshine he had seen and lost | G |
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| Far better in thy weeping hour | I |
| To part from thee as I do now | J |
| When mist is o'er thy blooming bowers | K |
| Like sorrow's veil on beauty's brow | J |
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| For though unrivall'd still thy grace | L |
| Thou dost not look as then too blest | G |
| But thus in shadow seem'st a place | L |
| Where erring man might hope to rest | G |
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| Might hope to rest and find in thee | M |
| A gloom like Eden's on the day | G |
| He left its shade when every tree | M |
| Like thine hung weeping o'er his way | G |
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| Weeping or smiling lovely isle | C |
| And all the lovelier for thy tears | N |
| For though but rare thy sunny smile | C |
| 'Tis heaven's own glance when it appears | O |
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| Like feeling hearts whose joys are few | P |
| But when indeed they come divine | B |
| The brightest light the sun e'er threw | P |
| Is lifeless to one gleam of thine | B |
Thomas Moore
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