A Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEEFGGHBBHIIJB K IIGBBGBBBII ILEHMMHBBHGGHIIGBBGB IDLLF| For the Irish Delegates in Australia | A |
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| DO you want to hear a story | B |
| With a nobler praise than 'glory ' | - |
| Of a man who loved the right like heaven and loathed the wrong like | C |
| hell | D |
| Then that story let me tell you | E |
| Once again though it as well you | E |
| Know as I the splendid story of the man they call Parnell | F |
| By the wayside of the nations | G |
| Lashed with whips and execrations | G |
| Helpless hopeless bleeding dying she the Maiden Nation lay | H |
| And the burthen of dishonour | B |
| Weighed so grievously upon her | B |
| That her very children hid their eyes and crept in shame away | H |
| And there as she was lying | I |
| Helpless hopeless bleeding dying | I |
| All her high born foes came round her fleering jeering as they said | J |
| 'What is freedom fought and won for | B |
| She is down She's dead and done for ' | - |
| And her weeping children shuddered as they crouched and whispered | K |
| 'Dead ' | - |
| Then suddenly up starting | I |
| All that throng before him parting | I |
| See a Man with firm step breaking through you central knot that gives | G |
| And as by some dear lost sister | B |
| He knelt down and softly kissed her | B |
| And he raised his pale proud face and cried 'She is not dead She lives | G |
| 'O she lives I say and I here | B |
| I am come to fight and die here | B |
| For the love my heart has for her like a slow consuming fire | B |
| For the love of her low lying | I |
| For the hatred deep undying | I |
| Of the robber lords who struck and stabbed and trod her in the mire ' | - |
| Then upon that cry bewildering | I |
| Some of them her hapless children | L |
| In their hearts there leaped up hope like light when night gives birth to | E |
| day | H |
| And as mocks and threats defied him | M |
| One by one they came beside him | M |
| Till they stood a band of heroes sombre desperate at bay | H |
| And the battle that they fought there | B |
| And the bitter truth they taught there | B |
| To the blinded Sister Nation suffering grievously alway | H |
| All the wrong and rapine past hers | G |
| Of her lords and her task masters | G |
| Is not this the larger hope of all as night gives birth to day | H |
| For the lords and liars are quaking | I |
| At the People's stern awaking | I |
| From their slumber of the ages and the Peoples slowly rise | G |
| And with hands locked tight together | B |
| One in heart and soul for ever | B |
| Watch the sun of Light and Liberty leap up into the skies | G |
| That's the story that's the story | B |
| With a nobler praise than 'glory ' | - |
| Of the Man who loved the right like heaven and loathed the wrong like | I |
| hell | D |
| And with calm proud exultation | L |
| Bade her stand at last a nation | L |
| Ireland Ireland that is one name with the name of Charles Parnell | F |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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