Self-reliance. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFEFE A GHGHIJIJKEKE A HEHELCLCEEEE M NJNJOHOHMEME| I | A |
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| Though savage force and subtle schemes | B |
| And alien rule through ages lasting | C |
| Have swept your land like lava streams | B |
| Its wealth and name and nature blasting | C |
| Rot not therefore in dull despair | D |
| Nor moan at destiny in far lands | E |
| Face not your foe with bosom bare | D |
| Nor hide your chains in pleasure's garlands | E |
| The wise man arms to combat wrong | F |
| The brave man clears a den of lions | E |
| The true man spurns the Helot's song | F |
| The freeman's friend is Self Reliance | E |
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| II | A |
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| Though France that gave your exiles bread | G |
| Your priests a home your hopes a station | H |
| Or that young land where first was spread | G |
| The starry flag of Liberation | H |
| Should heed your wrongs some future day | I |
| And send you voice or sword to plead 'em | J |
| With helpful love their help repay | I |
| But trust not even to them for Freedom | J |
| A Nation freed by foreign aid | K |
| Is but a corpse by wanton science | E |
| Convulsed like life then flung to fade | K |
| The life itself is Self Reliance | E |
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| III | A |
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| Oh see your quailing tyrant run | H |
| To courteous lies and Roman agents | E |
| His terror lest Dungannon's sun | H |
| Should rise again with riper radiance | E |
| Oh hark the Freeman's welcome cheer | L |
| And hark your brother sufferers sobbing | C |
| Oh mark the universe grow clear | L |
| Oh mark your spirit's royal throbbing | C |
| 'Tis Freedom's God that sends such signs | E |
| As pledges of his blest alliance | E |
| He gives bright hopes to brave designs | E |
| And lends his bolts to Self Reliance | E |
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| IV | M |
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| Then flung alone or hand in hand | N |
| In mirthful hour or spirit solemn | J |
| In lowly toil or high command | N |
| In social hall or charging column | J |
| In tempting wealth and trying woe | O |
| In struggling with a mob's dictation | H |
| In bearing back a foreign foe | O |
| In training up a troubled nation | H |
| Still hold to Truth abound in Love | M |
| Refusing every base compliance | E |
| Your Praise within your Prize above | M |
| And live and die in SELF RELIANCE | E |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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