Our Own Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCAAACDDDCBCBC A ECECFFFCGGGCHCHC A ICICIIICIIICICIC A JCJCIIICIIICICIC| I | A |
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| Let the coward shrink aside | B |
| We'll have our own again | C |
| Let the brawling slave deride | B |
| Here's for our own again | C |
| Let the tyrant bribe and lie | A |
| March threaten fortify | A |
| Loose his lawyer and his spy | A |
| Yet we'll have our own again | C |
| Let him soothe in silken tone | D |
| Scold from a foreign throne | D |
| Let him come with bugles blown | D |
| We shall have our own again | C |
| Let us to our purpose bide | B |
| We'll have our own again | C |
| Let the game be fairly tried | B |
| We'll have our own again | C |
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| II | A |
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| Send the cry throughout the land | E |
| Who's for our own again | C |
| Summon all men to our band | E |
| Why not our own again | C |
| Rich and poor and old and young | F |
| Sharp sword and fiery tongue | F |
| Soul and sinew firmly strung | F |
| All to get our own again | C |
| Brothers strive by brotherhood | G |
| Trees in a stormy wood | G |
| Riches come from Nationhood | G |
| Sha'n't we have our own again | C |
| Munster's woe is Ulster's bane | H |
| Join for our own again | C |
| Tyrants rob as well as reign | H |
| We'll have our own again | C |
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| III | A |
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| Oft our fathers' hearts it stirred | I |
| Rise for our own again | C |
| Often passed the signal word | I |
| Strike for our own again | C |
| Rudely rashly and untaught | I |
| Uprose they ere they ought | I |
| Failing though they nobly fought | I |
| Dying for their own again | C |
| Mind will rule and muscle yield | I |
| In senate ship and field | I |
| When we've skill our strength to wield | I |
| Let us take our own again | C |
| By the slave his chain is wrought | I |
| Strive for our own again | C |
| Thunder is less strong than thought | I |
| We'll have our own again | C |
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| IV | A |
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| Calm as granite to our foes | J |
| Stand for our own again | C |
| Till his wrath to madness grows | J |
| Firm for our own again | C |
| Bravely hope and wisely wait | I |
| Toil join and educate | I |
| Man is master of his fate | I |
| We'll enjoy our own again | C |
| With a keen constrained thirst | I |
| Powder's calm ere it burst | I |
| Making ready for the worst | I |
| So we'll get our own again | C |
| Let us to our purpose bide | I |
| We'll have our own again | C |
| God is on the righteous side | I |
| We'll have our own again | C |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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