Cleared Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ GGRR SSTT GGUU MMVV MMWXY ZZA2A2 SSB2B2 C2C2D2D2 E2E2B2B2 B2B2A2A2In Memory of a Commission | A |
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Help for a patriot distressed a spotless spirit hurt | B |
Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt | B |
From Queenstown Bay to Donegal O listen to my song | C |
The honourable gentlemen have suffered grievous wrong | C |
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Their noble names were mentioned O the burning black disgrace | D |
By a brutal Saxon paper in an Irish shooting case | D |
They sat upon it for a year then steeled their heart to brave it | E |
And 'coruscating innocence' the learned Judges gave it | E |
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Bear witness Heaven of that grim crime beneath the surgeon's knife | F |
The honourable gentlemen deplored the loss of life | F |
Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger | G |
No man laid hand upon the knife or finger to the trigger | G |
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Cleared in the face of all mankind beneath the winking skies | H |
Like ph oenixes from Ph oenix Park and what lay there they rise | H |
Go shout it to the emerald seas give word to Erin now | I |
Her honourable gentlemen are cleared and this is how | I |
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They only paid the Moonlighter his cattle hocking price | J |
They only helped the murderer with counsel's best advice | J |
But sure it keeps their honour white the learned Court believes | K |
They never gave a piece of plate to murderers and thieves | K |
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They never told the ramping crowd to card a woman's hide | L |
They never marked a man for death what fault of theirs he died | L |
They only said 'intimidate' and talked and went away | M |
By God the boys that did the work were braver men than they | M |
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Their sin it was that fed the fire small blame to them that heard | N |
The 'bhoys' get drunk on rhetoric and madden at a word | N |
They knew whom they were talking at if they were Irish too | O |
The gentlemen that lied in Court they knew and well they knew | O |
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They only took the Judas gold from Fenians out of jail | P |
They only fawned for dollars on the blood dyed Clanna Gael | P |
If black is black or white is white in black and white it's down | Q |
They're only traitors to the Queen and rebels to the Crown | Q |
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'Cleared' honourable gentlemen Be thankful it's no more | G |
The widow's curse is on your house the dead are at your door | G |
On you the shame of open shame on you from North to South | R |
The hand of every honest man flat heeled across your mouth | R |
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'Less black than we were painted' Faith no word of black was said | S |
The lightest touch was human blood and that you know runs red | S |
It's sticking to your fist to day for all your sneer and scoff | T |
And by the Judge's well weighed word you cannot wipe it off | T |
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Hold up those hands of innocence go scare your sheep together | G |
The blundering tripping tups that bleat behind the old bell wether | G |
And if they snuff the taint and break to find another pen | U |
Tell them it's tar that glistens so and daub them yours again | U |
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'The charge is old' As old as Cain as fresh as yesterday | M |
Old as the Ten Commandments have ye talked those laws away | M |
If words are words or death is death or powder sends the ball | V |
You spoke the words that sped the shot the curse be on you all | V |
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'Our friends believe' Of course they do as sheltered women may | M |
But have they seen the shrieking soul ripped from the quivering clay | M |
They If their own front door is shut | W |
they'll swear the whole world's warm | X |
What do they know of dread of death or hanging fear of harm | Y |
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The secret half a county keeps the whisper in the lane | Z |
The shriek that tells the shot went home behind the broken pane | Z |
The dry blood crisping in the sun that scares the honest bees | A2 |
And shows the 'bhoys' have heard your talk what do they know of these | A2 |
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But you you know ay ten times more the secrets of the dead | S |
Black terror on the country side by word and whisper bred | S |
The mangled stallion's scream at night the tail cropped heifer's low | B2 |
Who set the whisper going first You know and well you know | B2 |
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My soul I'd sooner lie in jail for murder plain and straight | C2 |
Pure crime I'd done with my own hand for money lust or hate | C2 |
Than take a seat in Parliament by fellow felons cheered | D2 |
While one of those 'not provens' proved me cleared as you are cleared | D2 |
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Cleared you that 'lost' the League accounts go guard our honour still | E2 |
Go help to make our country's laws that broke God's law at will | E2 |
One hand stuck out behind the back to signal 'strike again' | B2 |
The other on your dress shirt front to show your heart is clane | B2 |
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If black is black or white is white in black and white it's down | B2 |
You're only traitors to the Queen and rebels to the Crown | B2 |
If print is print or words are words the learned Court perpends | A2 |
We are not ruled by murderers but only by their friends | A2 |
Rudyard Kipling
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