Clare's Dragoons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDD D EFEF FFFDGGGD D HIHI JKKDDDDD D HIHI L MNNDIIID D EFEF L DDDD D D HIHI| Air Viva la | A |
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| When on Ramillies' bloody field | B |
| The baffled French were forced to yield | B |
| The victor Saxon backward reeled | B |
| Before the charge of Clare's Dragoons | C |
| The Flags we conquered in that fray | D |
| Look lone in Ypres' choir they say | D |
| We'll win them company to day | D |
| Or bravely die like Clare's Dragoons | D |
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| CHORUS | D |
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| Viva la for Ireland's wrong | E |
| Viva la for Ireland's right | F |
| Viva la in battle throng | E |
| For a Spanish steed and sabre bright | F |
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| II | - |
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| The brave old lord died near the fight | F |
| But for each drop he lost that night | F |
| A Saxon cavalier shall bite | F |
| The dust before Lord Clare's Dragoons | D |
| For never when our spurs were set | G |
| And never when our sabres met | G |
| Could we the Saxon soldiers get | G |
| To stand the shock of Clare's Dragoons | D |
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| CHORUS | D |
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| Viva la the New Brigade | H |
| Viva la the Old one too | I |
| Viva la the rose shall fade | H |
| And the shamrock shine for ever new | I |
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| III | - |
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| Another Clare is here to lead | J |
| The worthy son of such a breed | K |
| The French expect some famous deed | K |
| When Clare leads on his bold Dragoons | D |
| Our Colonel comes from Brian's race | D |
| His wounds are in his breast and face | D |
| The bearna baoghail is still his place | D |
| The foremost of his bold Dragoons | D |
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| CHORUS | D |
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| Viva la the New Brigade | H |
| Viva la the Old one too | I |
| Viva la the rose shall fade | H |
| And the shamrock shine for ever new | I |
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| IV | L |
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| There's not a man in squadron here | M |
| Was ever known to flinch or fear | N |
| Though first in charge and last in rere | N |
| Have ever been Lord Clare's Dragoons | D |
| But see we'll soon have work to do | I |
| To shame our boasts or prove them true | I |
| For hither comes the English crew | I |
| To sweep away Lord Clare's Dragoons | D |
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| CHORUS | D |
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| Viva la for Ireland's wrong | E |
| Viva la for Ireland's right | F |
| Viva la in battle throng | E |
| For a Spanish steed and sabre bright | F |
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| V | L |
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| Oh comrades think how Ireland pines | D |
| Her exiled lords her rifled shrines | D |
| Her dearest hope the ordered lines | D |
| And bursting charge of Clare's Dragoons | D |
| Then fling your Green Flag to the sky | - |
| Be Limerick your battle cry | - |
| And charge till blood floats fetlock high | - |
| Around the track of Clare's Dragoons | D |
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| CHORUS | D |
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| Viva la the New Brigade | H |
| Viva la the Old one too | I |
| Viva la the rose shall fade | H |
| And the shamrock shine for ever new | I |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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