Parnell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CCCC ECEC FGFG CCCC HIHI BJBK| Tears will betray all pride but when ye mourn him | A |
| Be it in soldier wise | B |
| As for a captain who hath greatly borne him | A |
| And in the midnight dies | B |
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| Fewness of words is best he was too great | C |
| For ours or any phrase | D |
| Love could not guess nor the slipped hound of hate | C |
| Track his soul's secret ways | D |
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| Signed with a sign unbroken unrevealed | C |
| His Calvary he trod | C |
| So let him keep where all world wounds are healed | C |
| The silences of God | C |
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| Yet is he Ireland's too a flaming coal | E |
| Lit at the stars and sent | C |
| To burn the sin of patience from her soul | E |
| The scandal of content | C |
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| A name to be a trumpet of attack | F |
| And in the evil stress | G |
| For England's iron No to fling her back | F |
| A grim granatic Yes | G |
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| He taught us more this best as it was last | C |
| When comrades go apart | C |
| They shall go greatly cancelling the past | C |
| Slaying the kindlier heart | C |
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| Friendship and love all clean things and unclean | H |
| Shall be as drifted leaves | I |
| Spurned by our Ireland's feet that queenliest Queen | H |
| Who gives not but receives | I |
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| So freedom comes and comes no other wise | B |
| He gave The Chief gave well | J |
| Limned in his blood across your clearing skies | B |
| Look up and read Parnell | K |
Thomas Kettle
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