Ireland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGEG HIHI DJDJDKDL CMCMAIAI CNCN COCO DBDPQRQI| Thou green isle of sorrows I think of thee daily | A |
| And sad are the thoughts that come into my brain | B |
| When here to my home o'er the wide rolling ocean | C |
| Is wafted the news of thy trouble and pain | B |
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| Oh Erin I love thee in spite of thine errors | D |
| And now for thee Erin my heart is forlorn | E |
| Disturb'd as thou art by such various terrors | D |
| Thou beautiful isle where my kindred were born | E |
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| E'en now in my thoughts I can climb thy steep mountains | F |
| Or roam through thy valleys where green shamrocks grow | G |
| Or over thy meadows where hedges of hawthorn | E |
| Stand gracefully clipp'd an impassable row | G |
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| And I see the thatch'd cottage where often the stranger | H |
| With kind word of welcome is met at the door | I |
| The castle or tow'r a shelter from danger | H |
| When foemen invaded thy sea beaten shore | I |
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| Oh Erin I roam in my thoughts by thy rivers | D |
| I stand by thy lakes in delight at the view | J |
| And ever I pray for the time that delivers | D |
| This nation from strife and from misery too | J |
| From Shannon's green banks unto Erne's limpid waters | D |
| I've travell'd in thought while this was my pray'r | K |
| That sons of Fermanagh and Limerick's daughters | D |
| Should join in a union of loyalty there | L |
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| For what loyal maid from the banks of the Shannon | C |
| Or what Irish lad from the slopes of the Bann | M |
| Would not dread the day when the boom of the cannon | C |
| Should speak of destruction and death from the van | M |
| And what loyal son of old Ireland's glory | A |
| From Cork's cove of beauty to Foyle's distant shore | I |
| Would not mourn the day when cold lifeless and gory | A |
| Brave forms downfallen should rise never more | I |
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| And who would not hail throughout Erin's dominion | C |
| The time when Religion's bright form should arise | N |
| And sail o'er the land with her blest healing pinion | C |
| And bring to all hearts the truth in one guise | N |
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| And then in his home afar o'er the ocean | C |
| Or by the turf fire upon Erin's old sod | O |
| Each Irishman kneeling in humble devotion | C |
| Would love all his brothers while praying to God | O |
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| Oh Erin mavourneen Let Love's joyous fingers | D |
| Strike out from your harps one glad resonant strain | B |
| And if one discordant harsh jarring note lingers | D |
| Oh strike for your country together again | P |
| And then when your hands and your hearts are united | Q |
| When you kneel at one shrine when you bow to one law | R |
| With a sea of glad brightness your isle shall be lighted | Q |
| While thunders the chorus of Erin go bragh | I |
Thomas Frederick Young
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