The Blessed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE G HI JKLL AMN ABL AOLO LANA ELPL QRE| Cumhal called out bending his head | A |
| Till Dathi came and stood | B |
| With a blink in his eyes at the cave mouth | C |
| Between the wind and the wood | B |
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| And Cumhal said bending his knees | D |
| 'I have come by the windy way | E |
| To gather the half of your blessedness | F |
| And learn to pray when you pray | E |
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| 'I can bring you salmon out of the streams | G |
| And heron out of the skies ' | - |
| But Dathi folded his hands and smiled | H |
| With the secrets of God in his eyes | I |
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| And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke | J |
| All manner of blessed souls | K |
| Women and children young men with books | L |
| And old men with croziers and stoles | L |
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| 'praise God and God's Mother ' Dathi said | A |
| 'For God and God's Mother have sent | M |
| The blessedest souls that walk in the world | N |
| To fill your heart with content ' | - |
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| 'And which is the blessedest ' Cumhal said | A |
| 'Where all are comely and good | B |
| Is it these that with golden thuribles | L |
| Are singing about the wood ' | - |
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| 'My eyes are blinking ' Dathi said | A |
| 'With the secrets of God half blind | O |
| But I can see where the wind goes | L |
| And follow the way of the wind | O |
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| 'And blessedness goes where the wind goes | L |
| And when it is gone we are dead | A |
| I see the blessedest soul in the world | N |
| And he nods a drunken head | A |
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| 'O blessedness comes in the night and the day | E |
| And whither the wise heart knows | L |
| And one has seen in the redness of wine | P |
| The Incorruptible Rose | L |
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| 'That drowsily drops faint leaves on him | Q |
| And the sweetness of desire | R |
| While time and the world are ebbing away | E |
| In twilights of dew and of fire ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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