A Nation Once Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEC A GHGHIFIC A JEJEKFKC L MNMNOFOC| I | A |
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| When boyhood's fire was in my blood | B |
| I read of ancient freemen | C |
| For Greece and Rome who bravely stood | D |
| THREE HUNDRED MEN AND THREE MEN | C |
| And then I prayed I yet might see | E |
| Our fetters rent in twain | F |
| And Ireland long a province be | E |
| A NATION ONCE AGAIN | C |
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| II | A |
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| And from that time through wildest woe | G |
| That hope has shone a far light | H |
| Nor could love's brightest summer glow | G |
| Outshine that solemn starlight | H |
| It seemed to watch above my head | I |
| In forum field and fane | F |
| Its angel voice sang round my bed | I |
| A NATION ONCE AGAIN | C |
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| III | A |
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| It whispered too that freedom's ark | J |
| And service high and holy | E |
| Would be profaned by feelings dark | J |
| And passions vain or lowly | E |
| For freedom comes from God's right hand | K |
| And needs a godly train | F |
| And righteous men must make our land | K |
| A NATION ONCE AGAIN | C |
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| IV | L |
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| So as I grew from boy to man | M |
| I bent me to that bidding | N |
| My spirit of each selfish plan | M |
| And cruel passion ridding | N |
| For thus I hoped some day to aid | O |
| Oh can such hope be vain | F |
| When my dear country shall be made | O |
| A NATION ONCE AGAIN | C |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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