Menace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CBCBB DBEBB FGFGF HIHIH BJBJB| Oh when the land is white as milk | A |
| With bloom that lets no leaf between | B |
| When trees are clad in grass green silk | A |
| And thrushes sing in a gold screen | B |
| What is it ails Dark Rosaleen | B |
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| Why is the banshee in the night | C |
| Crying for all the young men gone | B |
| Now when the world with bloom is white | C |
| When the good sun's warm on the stone | B |
| Why does the Woman of Death make moan | B |
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| As one who is not comforted | D |
| I heard in every lonely glen | B |
| Dark Rosaleen cry for her dead | E |
| And for her dying race of men | B |
| Dark Rosaleen take heart again | B |
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| For oh there's God in His high place | F |
| And Patrick seated by His side | G |
| To judge with Him the Irish race | F |
| And Columcille Kieran and Bride | G |
| Shall not forget before God's Face | F |
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| There's Mary of the Seven Swords | H |
| Queen of the Gael oh many a saint | I |
| With Oliver Plunkett to look towards | H |
| The Mercy Seat with praise and plaint | I |
| For Rosaleen ever the Lord's | H |
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| Oh weep no more Dark Rosaleen | B |
| Menace and terror pass you by | J |
| Oh loved beyond the sceptred queen | B |
| Dark Rosaleen for whom men die | J |
| And loved till death Dark Rosaleen | B |
Katharine Tynan
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