Bruadar And Smith And Glinn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA ABDBA ABEBA FGBGA AHAHA IBJBA AAFKA DDFGA ALBLA MNMNA OPBPA QDQBA RDADA FSDSA STSTA UVAVA DADAA FMBMA BBBBA BTBTA WXYXA TBTBA TBDBA ZA2B2A2A ABBBA BDBDA| Bruadar and Smith and Glinn | A |
| Amen dear God I pray | B |
| May they lie low in waves of woe | C |
| And tortures slow each day | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Bruadar and Smith and Glinn | A |
| Helpless and cold I pray | B |
| Amen I pray O king | D |
| To see them pine away | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Bruadar and Smith and Glinn | A |
| May flails of sorrow flay | B |
| Cause for lamenting snares and cares | E |
| Be theirs by night and day | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Blindness come down on Smith | F |
| Palsy on Bruadar come | G |
| Amen O King of Brightness Smite | B |
| Glinn in his members numb | G |
| Amen | A |
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| Smith in the pangs of pain | A |
| Stumbling on Bruadar's path | H |
| King of the Elements Oh Amen | A |
| Let loose on Glinn Thy Wrath | H |
| Amen | A |
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| For Bruadar gape the grave | I |
| Up shovel for Smith the mould | B |
| Amen O King of the Sunday Leave | J |
| Glinn in the devil's hold | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Terrors on Bruadar rain | A |
| And pain upon pain on Glinn | A |
| Amen O King of the Stars And Smith | F |
| May the devil be linking him | K |
| Amen | A |
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| Glinn in a shaking ague | D |
| Cancer on Bruadar's tongue | D |
| Amen O King of the Heavens and Smith | F |
| Forever stricken dumb | G |
| Amen | A |
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| Thirst but no drink for Glinn | A |
| Smith in a cloud of grief | L |
| Amen O King of the Saints and rout | B |
| Bruadar without relief | L |
| Amen | A |
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| Smith without child or heir | M |
| And Bruadar bare of store | N |
| Amen O King of the Friday Tear | M |
| For Glinn his black heart's core | N |
| Amen | A |
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| Bruadar with nerveless limbs | O |
| Hemp strangling Glinn's last breath | P |
| Amen O King of the World's Light | B |
| And Smith in grips with death | P |
| Amen | A |
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| Glinn stiffening for the tomb | Q |
| Smith wasting to decay | D |
| Amen O King of the Thunder's gloom | Q |
| And Bruadar sick alway | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Smith like a sieve of holes | R |
| Bruadar with throat decay | D |
| Amen O king of the Orders Glinn | A |
| A buck show every day | D |
| Amen | A |
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| Hell hounds to hunt for Smith | F |
| Glinn led to hang on high | S |
| Amen O King of the Judgment Day | D |
| And Bruadar rotting by | S |
| Amen | A |
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| Curses on Glinn I cry | S |
| My curse on Bruadar be | T |
| Amen O king of the Heavens high | S |
| Let Smith in bondage be | T |
| Amen | A |
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| Showers of want and blame | U |
| Reproach and shame of face | V |
| Smite them all three and smite again | A |
| Amen O King of Grace | V |
| Amen | A |
| - | |
| Melt may the three away | D |
| Bruadar and Smith and Glinn | A |
| Fall in a swift and sure decay | D |
| And lose but never win | A |
| Amen | A |
| - | |
| May pangs pass through thee Smith | F |
| Let the wind not take my prayer | M |
| May I see before the year is out | B |
| Thy heart's blood flowing there | M |
| Amen | A |
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| Leave Smith no place nor land | B |
| Let Bruadar wander wide | B |
| May the Devil stand at Glinn's right hand | B |
| And Glinn to him be tied | B |
| Amen | A |
| - | |
| All ill from every airt | B |
| Come down upon the three | T |
| And blast them ere the year be out | B |
| In rout and misery | T |
| Amen | A |
| - | |
| Glinn let misfortune bruise | W |
| Bruadar lose blood and brains | X |
| Amen O Jesus hear my voice | Y |
| Let Smith be bent in chains | X |
| Amen | A |
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| I accuse both Glinn and Bruadar | T |
| And Smith I accuse to God | B |
| May a breach and a gap be upon the three | T |
| And the Lord's avenging rod | B |
| Amen | A |
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| Each one of the wicked three | T |
| Who raised against me their hand | B |
| May fire from heaven come down and slay | D |
| This day their perjured band | B |
| Amen | A |
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| May none of their race survive | Z |
| May God destroy them all | A2 |
| Each curse of the psalms in the holy books | B2 |
| Of the prophets upon them fall | A2 |
| Amen | A |
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| Blight skull and ear and skin | A |
| And hearing and voice and sight | B |
| Amen before the year be out | B |
| Blight Son of the Virgin blight | B |
| Amen | A |
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| May my curses hot and red | B |
| And all I have said this day | D |
| Strike the Black Peeler too | B |
| Amen dear God I pray | D |
| Amen | A |
Douglas Hyde
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