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