The Prince's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDDEFEF GHGHIIFJJKFLF MNONPPFQQRFRF| Though dark are our sorrows today we'll forget them | A |
| And smile through our tears like a sunbeam in showers | B |
| There never were hearts if our rulers would let them | A |
| More form'd to be grateful and blest than ours | B |
| But just when the chain | C |
| Has ceased to pain | C |
| And hope has enwreathed it round with flowers | B |
| There comes a new link | D |
| Our spirits to sink | D |
| Oh the joy that we taste like the light of the poles | E |
| Is a flash amid darkness too brilliant to stay | F |
| But though 'twere the last little spark in our souls | E |
| We must light it up now on our Prince's Day | F |
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| Contempt on the minion who calls you disloyal | G |
| Though fierce to your foe to your friends you are true | H |
| And the tribute most high to a head that is royal | G |
| Is love from a heart that loves liberty too | H |
| While cowards who blight | I |
| Your fame your right | I |
| Would shrink from the blaze of the battle array | F |
| The Standard of Green | J |
| In front would be seen | J |
| Oh my life on your faith were you summon'd this minute | K |
| You'd cast every bitter remembrance away | F |
| And show what the arm of old Erin has in it | L |
| When roused by the foe on her Prince's Day | F |
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| He loves the Green Isle and his love is recorded | M |
| In hearts which have suffer'd too much to forget | N |
| And hope shall be crown'd and attachment rewarded | O |
| And Erin's gay jubileee shine out yet | N |
| The gem may be broke | P |
| By many a stroke | P |
| But nothing can cloud its native ray | F |
| Each fragment will cast | Q |
| A light to the last | Q |
| And thus Erin my country though broken thou art | R |
| There's lustre wiithin thee that ne'er will decay | F |
| A spirit which beams through each suffering part | R |
| And now smiles at all pain on the Prince's Day | F |
Thomas Moore
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