The Young Rebel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE GHGIIH JKJLLK AMAGGM JNJOON PQPOOQ JBJCBB

The sun is setting behind the rangeA
His golden rays pour downB
On a little figure childish and strangeA
Bending over a volume wornC
Whose green clad cover dusty and tornC
Bears a harp without a crownB
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The young eyes turn to the distant westD
Where the sunset colours glowE
And thoughts are thrilling the childish breastD
Of a gallant valorous deeds long doneF
Of glorious battles fought and wonF
In the days of long agoE
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His fancy peoples the lonely glenG
With the ghosts of the vanished pastH
Till he hears the tramp of armed menG
And O Niall s plumed horsemen rideI
While the Red Hand flutters in all its prideI
Above them on the blastH
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And just where the road winds into the creekJ
Where the jasmine stars the shadeK
With the soft winds kissing her blushing cheekJ
Beautiful grey eyed Dierdre standsL
Stretching to Naisi her snowy handsL
Half welcoming half dismayedK
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The purple hues of the gully changeA
With the deepening shades of nightM
And far in the nook of the distant rangeA
Is Michael Dwyer of the Wicklow glenG
Holding his desperate stand againG
Gainst the redcoat soldier s mightM
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The west wind rises across the creekJ
And with it the crash of steelN
Carries a flush to the listeners cheekJ
Tis only the crash of the branches dryO
But in it he hears the battle cryO
And the patriots words of zealN
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And martyred shades come thronging aroundP
To the roll call of LibertyQ
Louder their eager voices soundP
Till towering tree tops and glowing skyO
Are echoing back the defiant cryO
Michael Answer for meQ
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The moon is rising beyond the creekJ
The shining stars look downB
On a little dreamer whose pillowed cheekJ
Rest in sleep on a volume wornC
Whose green glad cover dusty and townB
Bears a harp without a crownB

Alice Guerin Crist



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