Dublin At Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHDICJKILMNK OPKPQRISOTUTCJKIGVWV ABCBDEFEGHDIIN the chill grey summer dawn light | A |
We pass through the empty streets | B |
The rattling wheels are all silent | C |
No friend his fellow greets | B |
Here and there at the corners | D |
A man in a great coat stands | E |
A bayonet hangs by his side and | F |
A rifle is in his hands | E |
This is a conquered city | G |
It speaks of war not peace | H |
And that's one of the English soldiers | D |
The English call 'police ' | I |
You see at the present moment | C |
That noble country of mine | J |
Is boiling with indignation | K |
At the memory of a 'crime ' | I |
In a path of the Phoenix Park where | L |
The children romped and ran | M |
An Irish Ruffian met his doom | N |
And an English Gentleman | K |
For a hundred and over a hundred | O |
Years on the country side | P |
Men and women and children | K |
Have slaved and starved and died | P |
That those who slaved and starved them | Q |
Might spend their earnings then | R |
And the Irish Ruffians have a 'good time ' | I |
And the English Gentlemen | S |
For a hundred and over a hundred | O |
Years that Christian land | T |
Has read its Bible and looked at all this | U |
And lifted nor foot nor hand | T |
But still at the present moment | C |
This noble country of mine | J |
Is boiling with indignation | K |
At the memory of this 'crime ' | I |
For the Irish Ruffians they tell me | G |
And it looks as if 'twere true | V |
And the English Gentlemen are so scarce | W |
We must wildly avenge these two | V |
In the chill grey summer dawn light | A |
We pass through the empty streets | B |
The rattling wheels are all silent | C |
No friend his fellow greets | B |
Here and there at the corners | D |
A man in a great coat stands | E |
A bayonet hangs by his side and | F |
A rifle is in his hands | E |
This is a conquered city | G |
It speaks of war not peace | H |
And that's one of the English soldiers | D |
The English call 'police ' | I |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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