These verse make the epilogue to a long poem called “Fand” which is based on the story of the love of Fand, the Sea-god’s wife, for Cuchullain and the jealousy of Cuchullain’s wife, Emer. William Larminie, the poet of “Fand,” had certain theories of English verse which might form a doctrine for the free verse poets of to-day. He considered that free verse might gain by an association with the Irish system of assonance. The “Epilogue to Fand” is an interesting experiment—the poet achieves beautiful music in it through the use of assonance.
