The Spark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCDEFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKKK MNMMN| Because I used to shun | A |
| Death and the mouth of hell | B |
| And count my battles won | A |
| If I should see the sun | A |
| The blood and smoke dispel | B |
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| Because I used to pray | C |
| That living I might see | D |
| The dawning light of day | C |
| Set me upon my way | C |
| And from my fetters free | D |
| Because I used to seek | E |
| Your answer to my prayer | F |
| And that your soul should speak | E |
| For strengthening of the weak | E |
| To struggle with despair | F |
| - | |
| Now I have seen my shame | G |
| That I should thus deny | H |
| My soul's divinest flame | G |
| Now shall I shout your name | G |
| Now shall I seek to die | H |
| - | |
| By any hands but these | I |
| In battle or in flood | J |
| On any lands or seas | I |
| No more shall I spare ease | I |
| No more shall I spare blood | J |
| - | |
| When I have need to fight | K |
| For heaven or for your heart | L |
| Against the powers of light | K |
| Or darkness I shall smite | K |
| Until their might depart | K |
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| Because I know the spark | M |
| Of God has no eclipse | N |
| Now Death and I embark | M |
| And sail into the dark | M |
| With laughter on our lips | N |
Joseph Plunkett
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