Lament For Banba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDE FGHFGHDE DIJDIJDE JKHJKHDE LMDLMDDE NOPNHPQEO my land O my love | A |
What a woe and how deep | B |
Is thy death to my long mourning soul | C |
God alone God above | A |
Can awake thee from sleep | B |
Can release thee from bondage and dole | C |
Alas alas and alas | D |
For the once proud people of Banba | E |
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As a tree in its prime | F |
Which the axe layeth low | G |
Didst thou fall O unfortunate land | H |
Not by time nor thy crime | F |
Came the shock and the blow | G |
They were given by a false felon hand | H |
Alas alas and alas | D |
For the once proud people of Banba | E |
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O my grief of all griefs | D |
Is to see how thy throne | I |
Is usurped whilst thyself art in thrall | J |
Other lands have their chiefs | D |
Have their kings thou alone | I |
Art a wife yet a widow withal | J |
Alas alas and alas | D |
For the once proud people of Banba | E |
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The high house of O'Neill | J |
Is gone down to the dust | K |
The O'Brien is clanless and banned | H |
And the steel the red steel | J |
May no more be the trust | K |
Of the Faithful and Brave in the land | H |
Alas alas and alas | D |
For the once proud people of Banba | E |
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True alas Wrong and Wrath | L |
Were of old all too rife | M |
Deeds were done which no good man admires | D |
And perchance Heaven hath | L |
Chastened us for the strife | M |
And the blood shedding ways of our sires | D |
Alas alas and alas | D |
For the once proud people of Banba | E |
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But no more This our doom | N |
While our hearts yet are warm | O |
Let us not over weakly deplore | P |
For the hour soon may loom | N |
When the Lord's mighty hand | H |
Shall be raised for our rescue once more | P |
And all our grief shall be turned into joy | Q |
For the still proud people of Banba | E |
James Clarence Mangan
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