Kathleen-ni-houlahan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCC DDDC EEEC EEEC FFFC| Long they pine in weary woe the nobles of our land | A |
| Long they wander to and fro proscribed alas and banned | A |
| Feastless houseless altarless they bear the exile's brand | A |
| But their hope is in the coming to of Kathleen Ni Houla han | B |
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| Think her not a ghastly hag too hideous to be seen | C |
| Call her not unseemly names our matchless Kathleen | C |
| Young is she and fair she is and would be crowned a queen | C |
| Were the King's son at home here with Kathleen Ni Houlahan | C |
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| Sweet and mild would look her face O none so sweet and mild | D |
| Could she crush her foes by whom her beauty is reviled | D |
| Woollen plaids would grace herself and robes of silk her child | D |
| If the King's son were living here with Kathleen Ni Houlahan | C |
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| Sore disgrace it is to see the Arbitress of Thrones | E |
| Vassal to a Saxoneen of cold and sapless bones | E |
| Bitter anguish wrings our souls with heavy sighs and groans | E |
| We wait the Young Deliverer of Kathleen Ni Houlahan | C |
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| Let us pray to Him who holds Life's issues in his hands | E |
| Him who formed the mighty globe with all its thousand lands | E |
| Girding them with seas and moutains rivers deep and strands | E |
| To case a look of pity upon Kathleen Ni Houlahan | C |
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| He who over sands and waves led Israel along | F |
| He who fed with heavenly bread that chosen tribe and throng | F |
| He who stood by Moses when his foes were fierce and strong | F |
| May He show forth His might in saving Kathleen Ni Houlahan | C |
James Clarence Mangan
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