How Oft Has The Benshee Cried Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGDDHI JJKKDDAAHow oft has the Benshee cried | A |
How oft has death untied | A |
Bright links that Glory wove | B |
Sweet bonds entwined by Love | C |
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth | D |
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth | D |
Long may the fair and brave | E |
Sigh o'er the hero's grave | E |
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We're fallen upon gloomy days | F |
Star after star decays | F |
Every bright name that shed | G |
Light o'er the land is fled | G |
Dark falls the tear of him who mourneth | D |
Lost joy or hope that ne'er returneth | D |
But brightly flows the tear | H |
Wept o'er a hero's bier | I |
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Quench'd are our beacon lights | J |
Thou of the Hundred Fights | J |
Thou on whose burning tongue | K |
Truth peace and freedom hung | K |
Both mute but long as valour shineth | D |
Or mercy's soul at war repineth | D |
So long shall Erin's pride | A |
Tell how they lived and died | A |
Thomas Moore
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