A Protestant Irishman To His Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JECE KBKB LMLM NONO PQP MRMR EEEE CSCS| Just forty years to day my dear | A |
| We sail'd from Irish waters | B |
| And bade farewell with many a tear | C |
| To Erin's sons and daughters | B |
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| You'll recollect how ach'd our hearts | D |
| That day in Tipperary | E |
| When we set forth for foreign parts | D |
| For distant woods or prairie | E |
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| You know our very hearts were rent | F |
| With grief almost asunder | G |
| And if we thought all joy was spent | F |
| No exil'd heart will wonder | G |
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| But soon we reach'd our strange new home | H |
| Where mighty forests flourish'd | I |
| With others forc'd like us to roam | H |
| Who in our isle were nourish'd | I |
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| But now I'm fairly happy here | J |
| And so are you my Mary | E |
| But still I've seen you drop a tear | C |
| Betimes for Tipperary | E |
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| We've many friends from home here now | K |
| And some we call our brothers | B |
| While some we meet with clouded brow | K |
| Their creed our feeling smothers | B |
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| There's some from Dublin Cork indeed | L |
| There's some from distant Galway | M |
| But ev'ry man whate'er his creed | L |
| Should own his country alway | M |
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| Tho' one attends the church and one | N |
| Devoutly seeks the chapel | O |
| Agreeably they yet might run | N |
| Nor have one discord apple | O |
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| True Irishmen have often met | P |
| One common cause to feel | Q |
| And many a furious onset met | P |
| With 'valor's clashing steel ' | - |
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| And surely there will come a day | M |
| When common thoughts and aims | R |
| Will shed a pure and healthy ray | M |
| And show what duty claims | R |
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| Sure Parson E went o'er the sea | E |
| And back he came so smiley | E |
| With stick so fine from black thorn tree | E |
| For father John O'Rielly | E |
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| Thus we as Irishmen should ne'er | C |
| Forget our common land | S |
| Or claims of breth'ren ev'rywhere | C |
| Upon our heart and hand | S |
Thomas Frederick Young
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