Orange And Green Will Carry The Day. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDCEECDDCFFC CCC CGGCHHCGGCCCC ICICCCCCCCJJCKKC I BCBCDDCLLCJJCMMC| Air The Protestant Boys | A |
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| I | - |
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| Ireland rejoice and England deplore | B |
| Faction and feud are passing away | C |
| 'Twas a low voice but 'tis a loud roar | B |
| Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
| Orange Orange | D |
| Green and Orange | D |
| Pitted together in many a fray | C |
| Lions in fight | E |
| And linked in their might | E |
| Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
| Orange Orange | D |
| Green and Orange | D |
| Wave them together o'er mountain and bay | C |
| Orange and Green | F |
| Our King and our Queen | F |
| Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
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| II | - |
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| Rusty the swords our fathers unsheathed | C |
| William and James are turned to clay | C |
| Long did we till the wrath they bequeathed | C |
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| Red was the crop and bitter the pay | C |
| Freedom fled us | G |
| Knaves misled us | G |
| Under the feet of the foemen we lay | C |
| Riches and strength | H |
| We'll win them at length | H |
| For Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
| Landlords fooled us | G |
| England ruled us | G |
| Hounding our passions to make us their prey | C |
| But in their spite | C |
| The Irish UNITE | C |
| And Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
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| III | - |
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| Fruitful our soil where honest men starve | I |
| Empty the mart and shipless the bay | C |
| Out of our want the Oligarchs carve | I |
| Foreigners fatten on our decay | C |
| Disunited | C |
| Therefore blighted | C |
| Ruined and rent by the Englishman's sway | C |
| Party and creed | C |
| For once have agreed | C |
| Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
| Boyne's old water | J |
| Red with slaughter | J |
| Now is as pure as an infant at play | C |
| So in our souls | K |
| Its history rolls | K |
| And Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
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| IV | I |
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| English deceit can rule us no more | B |
| Bigots and knaves are scattered like spray | C |
| Deep was the oath the Orangeman swore | B |
| Orange and Green must carry the day | C |
| Orange Orange | D |
| Bless the Orange | D |
| Tories and Whigs grew pale with dismay | C |
| When from the North | L |
| Burst the cry forth | L |
| Orange and Green will carry the day | C |
| No surrender | J |
| No Pretender | J |
| Never to falter and never betray | C |
| With an Amen | M |
| We swear it again | M |
| ORANGE AND GREEN SHALL CARRY THE DAY | C |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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