The Green Above The Red Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC BBCC BBCC D BBCC D BBCC D BBCC D BBCC D BBCC| Air Irish Molly O | A |
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| Full often when our fathers saw the Red above the Green | B |
| They rose in rude but fierce array with sabre pike and scian | B |
| And over many a noble town and many a field of dead | C |
| They proudly set the Irish Green above the English Red | C |
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| But in the end throughout the land the shameful sight was seen | B |
| The English Red in triumph high above the Irish Green | B |
| But well they died in breach and field who as their spirits fled | C |
| Still saw the Green maintain its place above the English Red | C |
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| And they who saw in after times the Red above the Green | B |
| Were withered as the grass that dies beneath a forest screen | B |
| Yet often by this healthy hope their sinking hearts were fed | C |
| That in some day to come the Green should flutter o'er the Red | C |
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| Sure 'twas for this Lord Edward died and Wolfe Tone sunk serene | B |
| Because they could not bear to leave the Red above the Green | B |
| And 'twas for this that Owen fought and Sarsfield nobly bled | C |
| Because their eyes were hot to see the Green above the Red | C |
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| So when the strife began again our darling Irish Green | B |
| Was down upon the earth while high the English Red was seen | B |
| Yet still we held our fearless course for something in us said | C |
| Before the strife is o'er you'll see the Green above the Red | C |
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| And 'tis for this we think and toil and knowledge strive to glean | B |
| That we may pull the English Red below the Irish Green | B |
| And leave our sons sweet Liberty and smiling plenty spread | C |
| Above the land once dark with blood the Green above the Red | C |
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| The jealous English tyrant now has banned the Irish Green | B |
| And forced us to conceal it like a something foul and mean | B |
| But yet by Heavens he'll sooner raise his victims from the dead | C |
| Than force our hearts to leave the Green and cotton to the Red | C |
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| VIII | D |
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| We'll trust ourselves for God is good and blesses those who lean | B |
| On their brave hearts and not upon an earthly king or queen | B |
| And freely as we lift our hands we vow our blood to shed | C |
| Once and for evermore to raise the Green above the Red | C |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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