Nationality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFF A GHGHHIHIHH A HHHHJKJLMM N HKHLOPOPQQ| I | A |
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| A Nation's voice a nation's voice | B |
| It is a solemn thing | C |
| It bids the bondage sick rejoice | B |
| 'Tis stronger than a king | C |
| 'Tis like the light of many stars | D |
| The sound of many waves | E |
| Which brightly look through prison bars | D |
| And sweetly sound in caves | E |
| Yet is it noblest godliest known | F |
| When righteous triumph swells its tone | F |
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| II | A |
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| A nation's flag a nation's flag | G |
| If wickedly unrolled | H |
| May foes in adverse battle drag | G |
| Its every fold from fold | H |
| But in the cause of Liberty | H |
| Guard it 'gainst Earth and Hell | I |
| Guard it till Death or Victory | H |
| Look you you guard it well | I |
| No saint or king has tomb so proud | H |
| As he whose flag becomes his shroud | H |
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| III | A |
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| A nation's right a nation's right | H |
| God gave it and gave too | H |
| A nation's sword a nation's might | H |
| Danger to guard it through | H |
| 'Tis freedom from a foreign yoke | J |
| 'Tis just and equal laws | K |
| Which deal unto the humblest folk | J |
| As in a noble's cause | L |
| On nations fixed in right and truth | M |
| God would bestow eternal youth | M |
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| IV | N |
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| May Ireland's voice be ever heard | H |
| Amid the world's applause | K |
| And never be her flag staff stirred | H |
| But in an honest cause | L |
| May Freedom be her very breath | O |
| Be Justice ever dear | P |
| And never an ennobled death | O |
| May son of Ireland fear | P |
| So the Lord God will ever smile | Q |
| With guardian grace upon our isle | Q |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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