Ulster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DCDCCCCC CCCCCCCC CBCBBBBB EFEFGHGH CICICCCC CJCJKFKF| quot Their webs shall not become garments neither shall they | A |
| cover themselves with their works their works are works | B |
| of inquity and the act of violence is in their hands quot | C |
| Isaiah lix | B |
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| The dark eleventh hour | D |
| Draws on and sees us sold | C |
| To every evil power | D |
| We fought against of old | C |
| Rebellion rapine hate | C |
| Oppression wrong and greed | C |
| Are loosed to rule our fate | C |
| By England's act and deed | C |
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| The Faith in which we stand | C |
| The laws we made and guard | C |
| Our honour lives and land | C |
| Are given for reward | C |
| To Murder done by night | C |
| To Treason taught by day | C |
| To folly sloth and spite | C |
| And we are thrust away | C |
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| The blood our fathers spilt | C |
| Our love our toils our pains | B |
| Are counted us for guilt | C |
| And only bind our chains | B |
| Before an Empire's eyes | B |
| The traitor claims his price | B |
| What need of further lies | B |
| We are the sacrifice | B |
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| We asked no more than leave | E |
| To reap where we had sown | F |
| Through good and ill to cleave | E |
| To our own flag and throne | F |
| Now England's shot and steel | G |
| Beneath that flag must show | H |
| How loyal hearts should kneel | G |
| To England's oldest foe | H |
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| We know the war prepared | C |
| On every peaceful home | I |
| We know the hells declared | C |
| For such as serve not Rome | I |
| The terror threats and dread | C |
| In market hearth and field | C |
| We know when all is said | C |
| We perish if we yield | C |
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| Believe we dare not boast | C |
| Believe we do not fear | J |
| We stand to pay the cost | C |
| In all that men hold dear | J |
| What answer from the North | K |
| One Law one Land one Throne | F |
| If England drive us forth | K |
| We shall not fall alone | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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