To Ireland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEEFF AGHIJKLMNOPPQPPPNRP| I | A |
| Bear witness Erin when thine injured isle | B |
| Sees summer on its verdant pastures smile | B |
| Its cornfields waving in the winds that sweep | C |
| The billowy surface of thy circling deep | C |
| Thou tree whose shadow o'er the Atlantic gave | D |
| Peace wealth and beauty to its friendly wave its blossoms fade | E |
| And blighted are the leaves that cast its shade | E |
| Whilst the cold hand gathers its scanty fruit | F |
| Whose chillness struck a canker to its root | F |
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| II | A |
| I could stand | G |
| Upon thy shores O Erin and could count | H |
| The billows that in their unceasing swell | I |
| Dash on thy beach and every wave might seem | J |
| An instrument in Time the giant's grasp | K |
| To burst the barriers of Eternity | L |
| Proceed thou giant conquering and to conquer | M |
| March on thy lonely way The nations fall | N |
| Beneath thy noiseless footstep pyramids | O |
| That for millenniums have defied the blast | P |
| And laughed at lightnings thou dost crush to nought | P |
| Yon monarch in his solitary pomp | Q |
| Is but the fungus of a winter day | P |
| That thy light footstep presses into dust | P |
| Thou art a conqueror Time all things give way | P |
| Before thee but the 'fixed and virtuous will' | N |
| The sacred sympathy of soul which was | R |
| When thou wert not which shall be when thou perishest | P |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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