The Nameless One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFH DIDI DJDJ IKIL DMDN OPOP QRQR STUT VWVW BVBV QXQXRoll forth my song like the rushing river | A |
That sweeps along to the mighty sea | B |
God will inspire me while I deliver | A |
My soul of thee | B |
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Tell thou the world when my bones lie whitening | C |
Amid the last homes of youth and eld | D |
That once there was one whose veins ran lightning | C |
No eye beheld | D |
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Tell how his boyhood was one drear night hour | A |
How shone for him through his griefs and gloom | E |
No star of all heaven sends to light our | A |
Path to the tomb | E |
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Roll on my song and to after ages | F |
Tell how disdaining all earth can give | G |
He would have taught men from wisdom's pages | F |
The way to live | H |
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And tell how trampled derided hated | D |
And worn by weakness disease and wrong | I |
He fled for shelter to God who mated | D |
His soul with song | I |
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With song which alway sublime or vapid | D |
Flow'd like a rill in the morning beam | J |
Perchance not deep but intense and rapid | D |
A mountain stream | J |
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Tell how this Nameless condemn'd for years long | I |
To herd with demons from hell beneath | K |
Saw things that made him with groans and tears long | I |
For even death | L |
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Go on to tell how with genius wasted | D |
Betray'd in friendship befool'd in love | M |
With spirit shipwreck'd and young hopes blasted | D |
He still still strove | N |
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Till spent with toil dreeing death for others | O |
And some whose hands should have wrought for him | P |
If children live not for sires and mothers | O |
His mind grew dim | P |
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And he fell far through that pit abysmal | Q |
The gulf and grave of Maginn and Burns | R |
And pawn'd his soul for the devil's dismal | Q |
Stock of returns | R |
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But yet redeem'd it in days of darkness | S |
And shapes and signs of the final wrath | T |
When death in hideous and ghastly starkness | U |
Stood on his path | T |
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And tell how now amid wreck and sorrow | V |
And want and sickness and houseless nights | W |
He bides in calmness the silent morrow | V |
That no ray lights | W |
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And lives he still then Yes Old and hoary | B |
At thirty nine from despair and woe | V |
He lives enduring what future story | B |
Will never know | V |
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Him grant a grave to ye pitying noble | Q |
Deep in your bosoms there let him dwell | X |
He too had tears for all souls in trouble | Q |
Here and in hell | X |
James Clarence Mangan
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