A Young Rebel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCC DEDCCE CFCGHF IJIKKJ ALACCL IMINNM OPONN ICICCCThe sun is setting behind the range | A |
his golden rays pour down | B |
On a little figure childish strange | A |
Bending over a volume worn | C |
Whose green clad cover dusty and torn | C |
Bears a 'harp without a crown' | C |
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The young eyes turn to the distant west | D |
Where the sunset colours glow | E |
And thoughts are thrilling the childish breast | D |
Of gallant valorous deeds long done | C |
Of glorious battles fought and won | C |
In the days of long ago | E |
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His fancy peoples the lonely glen | C |
With the ghosts of the vanished past | F |
Till he hears the tramp of armed men | C |
And O'Niall's plumed horsemen ridge | G |
While the 'Red Hand' flutters in all its pride | H |
Above them on the blast | F |
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And just where the road winds into the creek | I |
Where the jasmine stars the shade | J |
With the soft wind kissing her blushful cheek | I |
Beautiful grey eyed Dierdrie stands | K |
Stretching to Naisi her snowy hands | K |
Half welcoming half dismayed | J |
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The purple hues of the gully change | A |
With the deepening shades of night | L |
And far in a nook of the distant range | A |
Is Michael Dwyer of the Wicklow glen | C |
Holding his desperate stand again | C |
'Gainst the redcoat soldier's might | L |
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The west wind rises across the creek | I |
And with it the crash of steel | M |
Carries a flush to the listener's cheek | I |
'Tis only the crash of branches dry | N |
But in it he hears the battle cry | N |
And the patriot's words of zeal | M |
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And martyred shades come thronging around | O |
To the roll call of Liberty | P |
Louder their eager voices sound | O |
Till towering tree tops and glowing sky | N |
Are echoing back the defiant cry | N |
'Michael answer for me ' | - |
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The moon is rising above the creek | I |
The shining stars look down | C |
On a little dreamer whose pillowed cheek | I |
Rests in a volume worn | C |
Whose green clad cover dusty and torn | C |
Bears ' Harp without a Crown' | C |
Alice Guerin Crist
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