After Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CADA EAFA EGEG HEFE AIFI JAEA| Shall mine eyes behold thy glory oh my country | A |
| Shall mine eyes behold thy glory | A |
| Or shall the darkness close around them ere the sun blaze | B |
| Break at last upon thy story | A |
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| When the nations ope for thee their queenly circle | C |
| As sweet new sister hail thee | A |
| Shall these lips be sealed in callous death and silence | D |
| That have known but to bewail thee | A |
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| Shall the ear be deaf that only loved thy praises | E |
| When all men their tribute bring thee | A |
| Shall the mouth be clay that sang thee in thy squalor | F |
| When all poets' mouths shall sing thee | A |
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| Ah the harpings and the salvos and the shoutings | E |
| Of thy exiled sons returning | G |
| I should hear tho' dead and mouldered and the grave damps | E |
| Should not chill my bosom's burning | G |
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| Ah the tramp of feet victorious I should hear them | H |
| 'Mid the shamrocks and the mosses | E |
| And my heart should toss within the shroud and quiver | F |
| As a captive dreamer tosses | E |
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| I should turn and rend the cere cloths round me | A |
| Giant sinews I should borrow | I |
| Crying Oh my brothers I have also loved her | F |
| In her loneliness and sorrow | I |
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| Let me join with you the jubilant procession | J |
| Let me chant with you her story | A |
| Then contented I shall go back to the shamrocks | E |
| Now mine eyes have seen her glory | A |
Fanny Parnell
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