This Heritage To The Race Of Kings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIJK| This heritage to the race of kings | A |
| Their children and their children's seed | B |
| Have wrought their prophecies in deed | B |
| Of terrible and splendid things | A |
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| The hands that fought the hearts that broke | C |
| In old immortal tragedies | D |
| These have not failed beneath the skies | E |
| Their children's heads refuse the yoke | C |
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| And still their hands shall guard the sod | F |
| That holds their father's funeral urn | G |
| Still shall their hearts volcanic burn | G |
| With anger of the sons of God | F |
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| No alien sword shall earn as wage | H |
| The entail of their blood and tears | I |
| No shameful price for peaceful years | J |
| Shall ever part this heritage | K |
Joseph Plunkett
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