Death Of D'arcy Mcgee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNCO PQRQ STUT MOVO WPXP DUDU| He stood up in the house to speak | A |
| With calm unruffled brow | B |
| And never were his burning words | C |
| More eloquent than now | B |
| - | |
| Fresh from the greatest victory | D |
| That mortal man can win | E |
| The triumph against fearful odds | F |
| Over besetting sin | E |
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| 'Twas this gave to his eloquence | G |
| That thrilling trumpet tone | H |
| Moving all hearts with those bright thoughts | I |
| Vibrating through his own | H |
| - | |
| Thoughts strong and wise and statesmanlike | J |
| Warm with the love of Right | K |
| That gave his wit its keenest edge | L |
| His words their greatest might | K |
| - | |
| He little thought his last speech closed | M |
| That his career was o'er | N |
| That those who hung upon his words | C |
| Should hear his voice no more | O |
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| He walked home tranquilly and slow | P |
| Secure and unaware | Q |
| That there was murder in the hush | R |
| Of the still midnight air | Q |
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| Tis morning said he knowing not | S |
| That he had done with time | T |
| That a bloody hand would our country stain | U |
| With another useless crime | T |
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| He stood before a portal closed | M |
| To him for evermore | O |
| Behind him with uncreaking hinge | V |
| Oped the eternal door | O |
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| And ere the east grew red again | W |
| His life blood's purple flow | P |
| Had made that pavement holy ground | X |
| And filled the land with woe | P |
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| My country Oh my country | D |
| What is to thee the gain | U |
| Wilt nourish trees of liberty | D |
| In blood so foully slain | U |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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