Oh! Blame Not The Bard.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHA JKJKLMLM HNHNOPOP| Oh blame not the bard if he fly to the bowers | A |
| Where Pleasure lies carelessly smiling at Fame | B |
| He was born for much more and in happier hours | A |
| His soul might have burned with a holier flame | B |
| The string that now languishes loose o'er the lyre | C |
| Might have bent a proud bow to the warrior's dart | D |
| And the lip which now breathes but the song of desire | E |
| Might have poured the full tide of a patriot's heart | D |
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| But alas for his country her pride is gone by | F |
| And that spirit is broken which never would bend | G |
| O'er the ruin her children in secret must sigh | F |
| For 'tis treason to love her and death to defend | G |
| Unprized are her sons till they've learned to betray | H |
| Undistinguished they live if they shame not their sires | I |
| And the torch that would light them thro' dignity's way | H |
| Must be caught from the pile where their country expires | A |
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| Then blame not the bard if in pleasure's soft dream | J |
| He should try to forget what he never can heal | K |
| Oh give but a hope let a vista but gleam | J |
| Thro' the gloom of his country and mark how he'll feel | K |
| That instant his heart at her shrine would lay down | L |
| Every passion it nurst every bliss it adored | M |
| While the myrtle now idly entwined with his crown | L |
| Like the wreath of Harmodius should cover his sword | M |
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| But tho' glory be gone and tho' hope fade away | H |
| Thy name loved Erin shall live in his songs | N |
| Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay | H |
| Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs | N |
| The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains | O |
| The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep | P |
| Till thy masters themselves as they rivet thy chains | O |
| Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep | P |
Thomas Moore
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