Oh! Blame Not The Bard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHA JKJKLMLM HNHNOPOPOh 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 burn'd 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 pour'd 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 learn'd to betray | H |
Undistinguish'd they live if they shame not their sires | I |
And the torch that would light them through 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 |
Through 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 nursed 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 though glory be gone and though 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 sign 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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