Erin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBABD BEBEFGFG H H FIFI FJFC FKFK LMNM CDOD PFPF CFCF BDBDFQ FRSTU| Come sing a new song to her here while we listen ' | A |
| They cry to her sons who sing | B |
| And one sings ' Mavourneen it makes the eyes glisten | C |
| To think how the sorrows cling | B |
| Like the clouds on your mountains wreathing | B |
| Their green to a weeping gray ' | A |
| And the bard with his passionate breathing | B |
| Has no other sweet word to say | D |
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| 'Come sing a new song ' and their eyes while they're speaking | B |
| Are dreaming of far off things | E |
| And their hearts are away for the old words seeking | B |
| Unheeding of him who sings | E |
| But he smiles and sings on for the sound so slender | F |
| Has reached the deep note he knows | G |
| And the heart poem stirred by the word so tender | F |
| Out from the well spring flows | G |
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| And he says in his song ' dhtar dheelish the tearful | H |
| She's ready to laugh when she cries ' | - |
| And they sob when they hear 'Sure she's sad when she's cheerful | H |
| And she smiles with the tears in her eyes ' | - |
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| And he asks them What need of new poets to praise her | F |
| Her harpers still sing in the past | I |
| And her first sweet old melodies com fort and raise her | F |
| To joys never reached by her last | I |
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| What need of new hero with Brian or preacher | F |
| With Patrick or soldier with Conn | J |
| With her dark Ollamh Fohla what need of a teacher | F |
| Sage ruler and builder in one | C |
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| What need of new lovers with Deirdre and Imer | F |
| With wonders and visions and elves | K |
| Sure no need at all has romancer or rhymer | F |
| When the fairies belong to ourselves | K |
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| What need of new tongues O the Gaelic is clearest | L |
| Like Nature's own voice every word | M |
| 'Ahagur Acushla SavourneenI' the dearest | N |
| The ear of a girl ever heard | M |
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| They may talk of new causes Dhar Dhia ' our old one | C |
| Is fresher than ever to day | D |
| Like Erin's green sod that is steaming to God | O |
| The blood it has drunk in the fray | D |
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| They have scattered her seed with her blood and hate in it | P |
| And the harvest has come to her here | F |
| Her crown still remains for the strong heart to win it | P |
| And the hour of acceptance is near | F |
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| Through ages of warfare and famine and prison | C |
| Her voice and her spirit were free | F |
| But the longest night ends and her name has uprisen | C |
| The sunburst is red on the sea | F |
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| What need of new songs When his country is singing | B |
| What word has the Poet to say | D |
| But to drink her a toast while the joy bells are ringing | B |
| The dawn of her opening day | D |
| 'O Bride of the Sea may the world know your | F |
| As well as it knows your tears | Q |
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| As your past was for Freedom so be your hereafter | F |
| And through all your coming years | R |
| May no weak race be wronged and no strong robber feared | S |
| To oppressors grow hateful to slaves more endeared | T |
| Till the world comes to know that the test of a cause | U |
| Is the hatred of tyrants and Erin's applause ' | - |
John Boyle O'reilly
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