The Nameless One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFH DIDI DJDJ IKIL DMDN OPOP QRQR STUT VWVW BVBV QXQX

Roll forth my song like the rushing riverA
That sweeps along to the mighty seaB
God will inspire me while I deliverA
My soul of theeB
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Tell thou the world when my bones lie whiteningC
Amid the last homes of youth and eldD
That once there was one whose veins ran lightningC
No eye beheldD
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Tell how his boyhood was one drear night hourA
How shone for him through his griefs and gloomE
No star of all heaven sends to light ourA
Path to the tombE
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Roll on my song and to after agesF
Tell how disdaining all earth can giveG
He would have taught men from wisdom's pagesF
The way to liveH
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And tell how trampled derided hatedD
And worn by weakness disease and wrongI
He fled for shelter to God who matedD
His soul with songI
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With song which alway sublime or vapidD
Flow'd like a rill in the morning beamJ
Perchance not deep but intense and rapidD
A mountain streamJ
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Tell how this Nameless condemn'd for years longI
To herd with demons from hell beneathK
Saw things that made him with groans and tears longI
For even deathL
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Go on to tell how with genius wastedD
Betray'd in friendship befool'd in loveM
With spirit shipwreck'd and young hopes blastedD
He still still stroveN
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Till spent with toil dreeing death for othersO
And some whose hands should have wrought for himP
If children live not for sires and mothersO
His mind grew dimP
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And he fell far through that pit abysmalQ
The gulf and grave of Maginn and BurnsR
And pawn'd his soul for the devil's dismalQ
Stock of returnsR
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But yet redeem'd it in days of darknessS
And shapes and signs of the final wrathT
When death in hideous and ghastly starknessU
Stood on his pathT
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And tell how now amid wreck and sorrowV
And want and sickness and houseless nightsW
He bides in calmness the silent morrowV
That no ray lightsW
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And lives he still then Yes Old and hoaryB
At thirty nine from despair and woeV
He lives enduring what future storyB
Will never knowV
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Him grant a grave to ye pitying nobleQ
Deep in your bosoms there let him dwellX
He too had tears for all souls in troubleQ
Here and in hellX

James Clarence Mangan



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