Synge's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CBC DAD AAA AAA AAA EFE GFG HIH JIJ| My grief that they have laid you in the town | A |
| Within the moidher of its thousand wheels | B |
| And busy feet that travel up and down | A |
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| They had a right to choose a better bed | C |
| Far off among the hills where silence steals | B |
| In on the soul with comfort bringing tread | C |
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| The curlew would have keened for you all day | D |
| The wind across the heather cried Ochone | A |
| For sorrow of his brother gone away | D |
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| In Glenmalure far off from town bred men | A |
| Why would they not have left your sleep alone | A |
| At peace there in the shadow of the glen | A |
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| To tend your grave you should have had the sun | A |
| The fraughan and the moss the heather brown | A |
| And gorse turned gold for joy of Spring begun | A |
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| You should have had your brothers wind and rain | A |
| And in the dark the stars all looking down | A |
| To ask When will he take the road again | A |
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| The herdsmen of the lone back hills that drive | E |
| The mountain ewes to some far distant fair | F |
| Would stand and say We knew him well alive | E |
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| That God may rest his soul then they would pass | G |
| Into the silence brooding everywhere | F |
| And leave you to your sleep below the grass | G |
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| But now among these alien city graves | H |
| What way are you without the rough wind's breath | I |
| You free born son of mountains and wild waves | H |
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| Ah God knows better here you've no abode | J |
| So long ago you had the laugh at death | I |
| And rose and took the windswept mountain road | J |
Winifred Letts
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