How Oft Has The Benshee Cried Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGDDHI JJKKDDAA| How 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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