King Cahill's Farewell To The Rye Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGC FHI JKLM| WRITTEN TO THE LONDONDERRY AIR | A |
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| 'Tira autumn sun your shadow's flung my Cahill | B |
| Upon the field where now your reapmg's done | C |
| Lo there And lo Your reaper's wreath of rushes | D |
| Is on your forehead like a kingly crown | E |
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| 'And I have come to name you King of Connacht | F |
| And bid you where O'Connor's muster grows | G |
| No shadow king but one to front the Norman | C |
| And rear the standard that all Eire knows ' | - |
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| 'Farewell ' he said 'farewell the field I've sickled | F |
| Farewell the youths whose backs were bent with mine | H |
| Farewell the maids whose singing now comes to me | I |
| 'O Brighid bless our fields our roofs our kine '' | - |
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| 'No Norman keep shall frown above your labors | J |
| No pale they'll make to hold our Irish deer | K |
| A true born scion of Connacht's kings I go now | L |
| This brand my father's sword shall lead your axe | M |
| your spear ' | - |
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