Resurgite!- June, 1877 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDE BAFA GHIH GJB KBLB MNBN LLOL MBBB PBQB RSTS| NOW for the faith that is in ye | A |
| Polander Sclav and Kelt | B |
| Prove to the world what the lips have hurled | B |
| The hearts have grandly felt | B |
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| Rouse ye races in shackles | C |
| See in the East the glare | D |
| Is red in the sky and the warning cry | E |
| Is sounding 'Awake Prepare ' | - |
| - | |
| A voice from the spheres a hand downreached | B |
| To hands that would be free | A |
| To rend the gyves from the fettered lives | F |
| That strain toward Liberty | A |
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| Circassia the cup is flowing | G |
| That holdeth perennial youth | H |
| Who strikes succeeds for when manhood bleeds | I |
| Each dropp is a Cadmus' tooth | H |
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| Sclavonia first from the sheathing | G |
| Thy knife to the cord that binds | J |
| Thy one tongued host shall renew the boast | B |
| 'The Scythians are the Winds ' | - |
| - | |
| Greece to the grasp of heroes | K |
| Flashed with thine ancient pride | B |
| Thy swords advance in the passing chance | L |
| The great of heart are tried | B |
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| Poland thy lance heads brighten | M |
| The Tartar has swept thy name | N |
| From the schoolman's chart but the patriot's heart | B |
| Preserves its lines in flame | N |
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| Ireland mother of dolors | L |
| The trial on thee descends | L |
| Who quaileth in fear when the test is near | O |
| His bondage never ends | L |
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| Oppression that kills the craven | M |
| Defied is the freeman's good | B |
| No cause can be lost forever whose cost | B |
| Is coined from Freedom's blood | B |
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| Liberty's wine and altar | P |
| Are blood and human right | B |
| Her weak shall be strong while the struggle with wrong | Q |
| Is a sacrificial fight | B |
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| Earth for the people their laws their own | R |
| An equal race for all | S |
| Though shattered and few who to this are true | T |
| Shall flourish the more they fall | S |
John Boyle O'reilly
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