The Lament For O'sullivan Beare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEA FGHGBBGB IBJBBBKB BGJGLGAG MNGGOAPA QBOBBBB ERBRFSOS FATAOAUA| The sun of Ivera | A |
| No longer shines brightly | B |
| The voice of her music | C |
| No longer is sprightly | B |
| No more to her maidens | D |
| The light dance is dear | A |
| Since the death of our darling | E |
| O'Sullivan Beare | A |
| - | |
| Scully thou false one | F |
| You basely betrayed him | G |
| In his strong hour of need | H |
| When thy right hand should aid him | G |
| He fed thee he clad thee | B |
| You had all could delight thee | B |
| You left him you sold him | G |
| May heaven requite thee | B |
| - | |
| Scully May all kinds | I |
| Of evil attend thee | B |
| On thy dark road of life | J |
| May no kind one befriend thee | B |
| May fevers long burn thee | B |
| And agues long freeze thee | B |
| May the strong hand of God | K |
| In his red anger seize thee | B |
| - | |
| Had he died calmly | B |
| I would not deplore him | G |
| Or if the wild strife | J |
| Of the sea war closed o'er him | G |
| But with ropes round his white limbs | L |
| Through Ocean to trail him | G |
| Like a fish after slaughter | A |
| 'Tis therefore I wail him | G |
| - | |
| Long may the curse | M |
| Of his people pursue them | N |
| Scully that sold him | G |
| And soldier that slew him | G |
| One glimpse of Heaven's light | O |
| May they see never | A |
| May the hearthstone of Hell | P |
| Be their best bed forever | A |
| - | |
| In the hole where the vile hands | Q |
| Of soldiers had laid thee | B |
| Unhonored unshrouded | O |
| And headless they laid thee | B |
| No eye to rain o'er thee | B |
| No dirge to lament thee | B |
| No friend to deplore thee | B |
| - | |
| Dear head of my darling | E |
| How gory and pale | R |
| These aged eyes see thee | B |
| High spiked on their jail | R |
| That cheek in the summer sun | F |
| Ne'er shall grow warm | S |
| Nor that eye e'er catch light | O |
| From the flash of the storm | S |
| - | |
| A curse blessed ocean | F |
| Is on thy green water | A |
| From the Haven of Cork | T |
| To Ivera of Slaughter | A |
| Since the billows were dyed | O |
| With the red wounds of fear | A |
| Of Muirtach Og | U |
| Our O'Sullivan Beare | A |
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
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