The West's Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCCC DDDDEEEE FFFFGGGG G BBBBHHHH| Air The Brink of the White Rocks | A |
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| When all beside a vigil keep | B |
| The West's asleep the West's asleep | B |
| Alas and well may Erin weep | B |
| When Connaught lies in slumber deep | B |
| There lake and plain smile fair and free | C |
| 'Mid rocks their guardian chivalry | C |
| Sing oh let man learn liberty | C |
| From crashing wind and lashing sea | C |
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| That chainless wave and lovely land | D |
| Freedom and Nationhood demand | D |
| Be sure the great God never planned | D |
| For slumbering slaves a home so grand | D |
| And long a brave and haughty race | E |
| Honoured and sentinelled the place | E |
| Sing oh not even their sons' disgrace | E |
| Can quite destroy their glory's trace | E |
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| For often in O'Connor's van | F |
| To triumph dashed each Connaught clan | F |
| And fleet as deer the Normans ran | F |
| Through Corlieu's Pass and Ardrahan | F |
| And later times saw deeds as brave | G |
| And glory guards Clanricarde's grave | G |
| Sing oh they died their land to save | G |
| At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's wave | G |
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| IV | G |
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| And if when all a vigil keep | B |
| The West's asleep the West's asleep | B |
| Alas and well may Erin weep | B |
| That Connaught lies in slumber deep | B |
| But hark some voice like thunder spake | H |
| The West's awake the West's awake | H |
| Sing oh hurra let England quake | H |
| We'll watch till death for Erin's sake | H |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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