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Baile And Aillinn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT Baile and Aillinn were lovers but Aengus the	A
Master of Love wishing them to he happy in his own land	B
among the dead told to each a story of the other's death so	C
that their hearts were broken and they died	D
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I hardly hear the curlew cry	E
Nor thegrey rush when the wind is high	E
Before my thoughts begin to run	F
On the heir of Uladh Buan's son	F
Baile who had the honey mouth	G
And that mild woman of the south	G
Aillinn who was King Lugaidh's heir	H
Their love was never drowned in care	H
Of this or that thing nor grew cold	I
Because their hodies had grown old	I
Being forbid to marry on earth	J
They blossomed to immortal mirth	J
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About the time when Christ was born	K
When the long wars for the White Horn	K
And the Brown Bull had not yet come	L
Young Baile Honey Mouth whom some	L
Called rather Baile Little Land	B
Rode out of Emain with a band	B
Of harpers and young men and they	M
Imagined as they struck the way	M
To many pastured Muirthemne	K
That all things fell out happily	N
And there for all that fools had said	O
Baile and Aillinn would be wed	O
	-
They found an old man running there	H
He had ragged long grass coloured hair	H
He had knees that stuck out of his hose	P
He had puddle water in his shoes	Q
He had half a cloak to keep him dry	E
Although he had a squirrel's eye	E
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O wandering hirds and rushy beds	R
You put such folly in our heads	R
With all this crying in the wind	S
No common love is to our mind	S
And our poor kate or Nan is less	T
Than any whose unhappiness	U
Awoke the harp strings long ago	C
Yet they that know all things hut know	C
That all this life can give us is	V
A child's laughter a woman's kiss	U
Who was it put so great a scorn	K
In thegrey reeds that night and morn	K
Are trodden and broken hy the herds	W
And in the light bodies of birds	W
The north wind tumbles to and fro	C
And pinches among hail and snow	C
	-
That runner said 'I am from the south	G
I run to Baile Honey Mouth	G
To tell him how the girl Aillinn	C
Rode from the country of her kin	C
And old and young men rode with her	X
For all that country had been astir	X
If anybody half as fair	X
Had chosen a husband anywhere	X
But where it could see her every day	M
When they had ridden a little way	M
An old man caught the horse's head	O
With You must home again and wed	O
With somebody in your own land	B
A young man cried and kissed her hand	B
O lady wed with one of us	Y
And when no face grew piteous	Y
For any gentle thing she spake	Z
She fell and died of the heart break '	-
Because a lover's heart s worn out	A2
Being tumbled and blown about	A2
By its own blind imagining	B2
And will believe that anything	B2
That is bad enough to be true is true	X
Baile's heart was broken in two	X
And he being laid upon green boughs	Y
Was carried to the goodly house	Y
Where the Hound of Uladh sat before	X
The brazen pillars of his door	X
His face bowed low to weep the end	C2
Of the harper's daughter and her friend	C2
For athough years had passed away	M
He always wept them on that day	M
For on that day they had been betrayed	D2
And now that Honey Mouth is laid	D2
Under a cairn of sleepy stone	C
Before his eyes he has tears for none	C
Although he is carrying stone but two	X
For whom the cairn's but heaped anew	X
	-
We hold because our memory is	Y
Sofull of that thing and of this	Y
That out of sight is out of mind	S
But the grey rush under the wind	S
And the grey bird with crooked bill	E2
rave such long memories that they still	E2
Remember Deirdre and her man	C
And when we walk with Kate or Nan	C
About the windy water side	D
Our hearts can Fear the voices chide	D
How could we be so soon content	F2
Who know the way that Naoise went	F2
And they have news of Deirdre's eyes	Y
Who being lovely was so wise	Y
Ah wise my heart knows well how wise	Y
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Now had that old gaunt crafty one	C
Gathering his cloak about him mn	C
Where Aillinn rode with waiting maids	Y
Who amid leafy lights and shades	Y
Dreamed of the hands that would unlace	Y
Their bodices in some dim place	Y
When they had come to the matriage bed	O
And harpers pacing with high head	O
As though their music were enough	G2
To make the savage heart of love	H2
Grow gentle without sorrowing	B2
Imagining and pondering	B2
Heaven knows what calamity	N
	-
'Another's hurried off ' cried he	N
'From heat and cold and wind and wave	I2
They have heaped the stones above his grave	I2
In Muirthemne and over it	J2
In changeless Ogham letters writ	J2
Baile that was of Rury's seed	K2
But the gods long ago decreed	K2
No waiting maid should ever spread	O
Baile and Aillinn's marriage bed	O
For they should clip and clip again	C
Where wild bees hive on the Great Plain	C
Therefore it is but little news	Y
That put this hurry in my shoes '	-
	-
Then seeing that he scarce had spoke	B2
Before her love worn heart had broke	B2
He ran and laughed until he came	L2
To that high hill the herdsmen name	L2
The Hill Seat of Laighen because	Y
Some god or king had made the laws	Y
That held the land together there	X
In old times among the clouds of the air	X
	-
That old man climbed the day grew dim	M2
Two swans came flying up to him	M2
Linked by a gold chain each to each	N2
And with low murmuring laughing speech	N2
Alighted on the windy grass	Y
They knew him his changed body was	Y
Tall proud and ruddy and light wings	Y
Were hovering over the harp strings	Y
That Edain Midhir's wife had wove	O2
In the hid place being crazed by love	H2
	-
What shall I call them fish that swim	M2
Scale rubbing scale where light is dim	M2
By a broad water lily leaf	P2
Or mice in the one wheaten sheaf	P2
Forgotten at the threshing place	Y
Or birds lost in the one clear space	Y
Of morning light in a dim sky	B2
Or it may be the eyelids of one eye	B2
Or the door pillars of one house	Y
Or two sweet blossoming apple boughs	Y
That have one shadow on the ground	Q2
Or the two strings that made one sound	Q2
Where that wise harper's finger ran	C
For this young girl and this young man	C
Have happiness without an end	C2
Because they have made so good a friend	C2
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They know all wonders for they pass	Y
The towery gates of Gorias	Y
And Findrias and Falias	Y
And long forgotten Murias	Y
Among the giant kings whose hoard	R2
Cauldron and spear and stone and sword	R2
Was robbed before earth gave the wheat	S2
Wandering from broken street to street	S2
They come where some huge watcher is	Y
And tremble with their love and kiss	Y
	-
They know undying things for they	M
Wander where earth withers away	M
Though nothing troubles the great streams	Y
But light from the pale stars and gleams	Y
From the holy orchards where there is none	C
But fruit that is of precious stone	C
Or apples of the sun and moon	C
	-
What were our praise to them They eat	S2
Quiet's wild heart like daily meat	S2
Who when night thickens are afloat	T2
On dappled skins in a glass boat	T2
Far out under a windless sky	B2
While over them birds of Aengus fly	B2
And over the tiller and the prow	X
And waving white wings to and fro	X
Awaken wanderings of light air	X
To stir their coverlet and their hair	X
	-
And poets found old writers say	M
A yew tree where his body lay	M
But a wild apple hid the grass	Y
With its sweet blossom where hers was	Y
And being in good heart because	Y
A better time had come again	C
After the deaths of many men	C
And that long fighting at the ford	R2
They wrote on tablets of thin board	R2
Made of the apple and the yew	X
All the love stories that they knew	X
	-
Let rush and hird cry out their fill	E2
Of the harper's daughter if they will	E2
Beloved I am not afraid of her	X
She is not wiser nor lovelier	X
And you are more high of heart than she	N
For all her wanderings over sea	N
But I'd have bird and rush forget	U2
Those other two for never yet	U2
Has lover lived but longed to wive	P2
Like them that are no more alive	P2