The Boyne Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB BBDD DDBB EEFF GGBB DDBBFF BBGG| July the first of a morning clear one thousand six hundred and ninety | A |
| King William did his men prepare of thousands he had thirty | A |
| To fight King James and all his foes encamped near the Boyne Water | B |
| He little feared though two to one their multitude to scatter | B |
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| King William called his officers saying Gentlemen mind your station | C |
| And let your valour here be shown before this Irish nation | C |
| My brazen walls let no man break and your subtle foes you'll scatter | B |
| Be sure you show them good English play as you go over the water | B |
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| Both foot and horse they marched on intending them to batter | B |
| But the brave Duke Schomberg he was shot as he crossed over the water | B |
| When that King William did observe the brave Duke Schomberg falling | D |
| He reined his horse with a heavy heart on the Enniskillenes calling | D |
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| What will you do for me brave boys see yonder men retreating | D |
| Our enemies encouraged are and English drums are beating | D |
| He says My boys feel no dismay at the losing of one commander | B |
| For God shall be our King this day and I'll be general under | B |
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| Within four yards of our fore front before a shot was fired | E |
| A sudden snuff they got that day which little they desired | E |
| For horse and man fell to the ground and some hung on their saddle | F |
| Others turned up their forked ends which we call coup de ladle | F |
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| Prince Eugene's regiment was the next on our right hand advanced | G |
| Into a field of standing wheat where Irish horses pranced | G |
| But the brandy ran so in their heads their senses all did scatter | B |
| They little thought to leave their bones that day at the Boyne Water | B |
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| Both men and horse lay on the ground and many there lay bleeding | D |
| I saw no sickles there that day but sure there was sharp shearing | D |
| Now praise God all true Protestants and heaven's and earth's Creator | B |
| For the deliverance he sent our enemies to scatter | B |
| The Church's foes will pine away like churlish hearted Nabal | F |
| For our deliverer came this day like the great Zorobabal | F |
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| So praise God all true Protestants and I will say no further | B |
| But had the Papists gained that day there would have been open murder | B |
| Although King James and many more were ne'er that way inclined | G |
| It was not in their power to stop what the rabble they designed | G |
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