The Old College Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDFGGDD HDFFIJDKLMND| Of the Irish Paris | A |
| THE Lombards having gone back to their land | B |
| We who might never flock to native land | B |
| Except like birds that fly like fugitives | C |
| Desperately in a wind across the sea | D |
| We drew our brood to their forsaken nest | E |
| The Lombards halls became the Irelanders' | D |
| And charity was craved for us 'twas given | F |
| In names of Almantza and Namur | G |
| Cremona Barcelona Charleroi | G |
| Fields that our soldiers bled on for a cause | D |
| Not ours under command not ours | D |
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| Our order broken they who were our brood | H |
| Knew not themselves the heirs of noted masters | D |
| Of Columbanus and Erigena | F |
| We strove towards no high reach of speculation | F |
| Towards no delivery of gestated dogma | I |
| No resolution of age long dispute | J |
| Only to have a priest beside the hedges | D |
| Baptizing marrying | K |
| Offering Mass within some clod built chapel | L |
| And to the dying the last sacrament | M |
| Conveying no more we strove to do | N |
| We all bare exiles soldiers scholars priests | D |
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