Roger Casement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDBFGD DCDCHHHD| THEY have hanged Roger Casement to the tolling | A |
| of a bell | B |
| Ochone och ochone ochone | C |
| And their Smiths and their Murrays and their Cecils say it's well | B |
| Ochone och ochone ochone | C |
| But there are outcast peoples to lift that | D |
| spirit high | E |
| Flayed men and breastless women who laboured | D |
| fearfully | B |
| And they will lift him lift him for the eyes | F |
| of God to see | G |
| And it's well after all Roger Casement | D |
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| They've ta'en his strangled body from the gallows to the pit | D |
| Ochone och ochone ochone | C |
| And the flame that eats into it the quicklime brought to it | D |
| Ochone och ochone ochone | C |
| To waste that noble stature the grave and brightening face | H |
| In which courtesy and kindliness had eminence of place | H |
| But they they'll die to dust which the wind will take a pace | H |
| While 'twas yours to die to fire Roger Casement | D |
Padraic Colum
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