England To Ireland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECFGFG CHCHICJC KLKLCMCM JNINNONO| Spouse whom my sword in the olden time won me | A |
| Winning me hatred more sharp than a sword | B |
| Mother of children who hiss at or shun me | A |
| Curse or revile me and hold me abhorred | B |
| Heiress of anger that nothing assuages | C |
| Mad for the future and mad from the past | D |
| Daughter of all the implacable ages | C |
| Lo let us turn and be lovers at last | D |
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| Lovers whom tragical sin hath made equal | E |
| One in transgression and one in remorse | C |
| Bonds may be severed but what were the sequel | E |
| Hardly shall amity come of divorce | C |
| Let the dead Past have a royal entombing | F |
| O'er it the Future built white for a fane | G |
| I that am haughty from much overcoming | F |
| Sue to thee supplicate nay is it vain | G |
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| Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness | C |
| Could we but see one another 'twere well | H |
| Knowledge is sympathy charity kindness | C |
| Ignorance only is maker of hell | H |
| Could we but gaze for an hour for a minute | I |
| Deep in each other's unfaltering eyes | C |
| Love were begun for that look would begin it | J |
| Born in the flash of a mighty surprise | C |
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| Then should the ominous night bird of Error | K |
| Scared by a sudden irruption of day | L |
| Flap his maleficent wings and in terror | K |
| Flit to the wilderness dropping his prey | L |
| Then should we growing in strength and in sweetness | C |
| Fusing to one indivisible soul | M |
| Dazzle the world with a splendid completeness | C |
| Mightily single immovably whole | M |
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| Thou like a flame when the stormy winds fan it | J |
| I like a rock to the elements bare | N |
| Mixed by love's magic the fire and the granite | I |
| Who should compete with us what should compare | N |
| Strong with a strength that no fate might dissever | N |
| One with a oneness no force could divide | O |
| So were we married and mingled for ever | N |
| Lover with lover and bridegroom with bride | O |
William Watson
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