Terence Macswiney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDF| See though the oil be low more purely still and higher | A |
| The flame burns in the body's lamp The watchers still | B |
| Gaze with unseeing eyes while the Promethean Will | B |
| The Uncreated Light the Everlasting Fire | A |
| Sustains itself against the torturer's desire | A |
| Even as the fabled Titan chained upon the hill | B |
| Burn on shine on thou immortality until | B |
| We too have lit our lamps at the funeral pyre | A |
| Till we too can be noble unshakable undismayed | C |
| Till we too can burn with the holy flame and know | D |
| There is that within us can triumph over pain | E |
| And go to death alone slowly and unafraid | C |
| The candles of God are already burning row on row | D |
| Farewell lightbringer fly to thy heaven again | F |
'æ,' George William Russell
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