Odysseus: In Memory Of Arthur Griffith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKILFMN OPQFO ROOSTOOK OUFVUWYou had the prose of logic and of scorn | A |
And words to sledge an iron argument | B |
And yet you could draw down the outland birds | C |
To perch beside the ravens of your thought | D |
The dreams whereby a people challenges | E |
Its dooms its bounds You were the one who knew | F |
What sacred resistance is in men | G |
That are almost broken how from resistance used | H |
A strength is born a stormy bright eyed strength | I |
Like Homer's Iris messenger of the gods | J |
Coming before the ships the enemy | K |
Has flung the fire upon Our own our native strength | I |
You mustered up But I will never say this | L |
Walking beside you or looking on you | F |
With your strong brow and chin was like a targe | M |
And eyes that were so kindly of us all | N |
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And sorrow comes as on that August day | O |
With our ship cleaving through the seas for home | P |
And that news coming sparkling through the air | Q |
That you were dead and that we'd never see you | F |
Looking upon the state that you had builded | O |
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The news that came was like that weight of waters | R |
Poured on our hopes Our navies yet unbuilded | O |
Our city left inglorious on its site | O |
Our fields uncleared and over | S |
Our ancient house the ancient curse of war | T |
And could we pray touching the island homeland | O |
Other than this 'Odysseus you who laboured | O |
So long upon the barren outer sea | K |
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Odysseus Odysseus you who made | O |
The plan that drove the wasters from the house | U |
And bent the bow that none could bend but you | F |
Be with us still | V |
Your memory be the watcher in our house | U |
Your memory be the flame upon our hills | W |
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