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