The Proclamation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHICJJFF KKLLMMNNOPQQ| SAINT PATRICK slave to Milcho of the herds | A |
| Of Ballymena wakened with these words | A |
| 'Arise and flee | B |
| Out from the land of bondage and be free ' | C |
| Glad as a soul in pain who hears from heaven | D |
| The angels singing of his sins forgiven | D |
| And wondering sees | E |
| His prison opening to their golden keys | E |
| He rose a man who laid him down a slave | F |
| Shook from his locks the ashes of the grave | F |
| And outward trod | G |
| Into the glorious liberty of God | G |
| He east the symbols of his shame away | H |
| And passing where the sleeping Milcho lay | H |
| Though back and limb | I |
| Smarted with wrong he prayed 'God pardon him ' | C |
| So went he forth but in God's time he came | J |
| To light on Uilline's hills a holy flame | J |
| And dying gave | F |
| The land a saint that lost him as a slave | F |
| O dark sad millions patiently and dumb | K |
| Waiting for God your hour at last has come | K |
| And freedom's song | L |
| Breaks the long silence of your night of wrong | L |
| Arise and flee shake off the vile restraint | M |
| Of ages but like Ballymena's saint | M |
| The oppressor spare | N |
| Heap only on his head the coals of prayer | N |
| Go forth like him like him return again | O |
| To bless the land whereon in bitter pain | P |
| Ye toiled at first | Q |
| And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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