Tis Gone, And For Ever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAC ADADEEEC AFAEGGGC| 'Tis gone and for ever the light we saw breaking | A |
| Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead | B |
| When Man from the slumber of ages awaking | A |
| Look'd upward and bless'd the pure ray ere it fled | B |
| 'Tis gone and the gleams it has left of its burning | A |
| But deepen the long night of bondage and mourning | A |
| That dark o'er the kingdoms of earth is returning | A |
| And darkest of all hapless Erin o'er thee | C |
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| For high was thy hope when those glories were darting | A |
| Around thee through all the gross clouds of the world | D |
| When Truth from her letters indignantly starting | A |
| At once like a sun burst her banner unfurl'd | D |
| Oh never shall earth see a moment so splendid | E |
| Then then had one Hymn of Deliverance blended | E |
| The tongues of all nations how sweet had ascended | E |
| The first note of liberty Erin from thee | C |
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| But shame on those tyrants who envied the blessing | A |
| And shame on the light race unworthy its good | F |
| Who at Death's reeking altar like furies caressing | A |
| The young hope of Freedom baptised it in blood | E |
| Then vanish'd for ever that fair sunny vision | G |
| Which spite of the slavish the cold heart's derision | G |
| Shall long be remember'd pure bright and elysian | G |
| As first it arose my lost Erin on thee | C |
Thomas Moore
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