Lament For Banba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDE FGHFGHDE DIJDIJDE JKHJKHDE LMDLMDDE NOPNHPQE| O 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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