The Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EBBE FBBF GBBG EHHI| There was a green branch hung with many a bell | A |
| When her own people ruled this tragic Eire | B |
| And from its murmuring greenness calm of Faery | B |
| A Druid kindness on all hearers fell | A |
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| It charmed away the merchant from his guile | C |
| And turned the farmer's memory from his cattle | D |
| And hushed in sleep the roaring ranks of battle | D |
| And all grew friendly for a little while | C |
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| Ah Exiles wandering over lands and seas | E |
| And planning plotting always that some morrow | B |
| May set a stone upon ancestral Sorrow | B |
| I also bear a bell branch full of ease | E |
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| I tore it from green boughs winds tore and tossed | F |
| Until the sap of summer had grown weary | B |
| I tore it from the barren boughs of Eire | B |
| That country where a man can be so crossed | F |
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| Can be so battered badgered and destroyed | G |
| That he's a loveless man gay bells bring laughter | B |
| That shakes a mouldering cobweb from the rafter | B |
| And yet the saddest chimes are best enjoyed | G |
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| Gay bells or sad they bring you memories | E |
| Of half forgotten innocent old places | H |
| We and our bitterness have left no traces | H |
| On Munster grass and Connemara skies | I |
William Butler Yeats
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