The Irish Mother In The Penal Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII| Now welcome welcome baby boy unto a mother's fears | A |
| The pleasure of her sufferings the rainbow of her tears | B |
| The object of your father's hope in all he hopes to do | C |
| A future man of his own land to live him o'er anew | C |
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| How fondly on thy little brow a mother's eye would trace | D |
| And in thy little limbs and in each feature of thy face | D |
| His beauty worth and manliness and everything that's his | E |
| Except my boy the answering mark of where the fetter is | E |
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| Oh many a weary hundred years his sires that fetter wore | F |
| And he has worn it since the day that him his mother bore | F |
| And now my son it waits on you the moment you are born | G |
| The old hereditary badge of suffering and scorn | G |
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| Alas my boy so beautiful alas my love so brave | H |
| And must your gallant Irish limbs still drag it to the grave | H |
| And you my son yet have a son foredoomed a slave to be | I |
| Whose mother still must weep o'er him the tears I weep o'er thee | I |
John Banim
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