We Must Not Fail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFGG H HHHH H IIJJ H HHKK H LLJJ H HHBB| I | A |
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| We must not fail we must not fail | B |
| However fraud or force assail | B |
| By honour pride and policy | C |
| By Heaven itself we must be free | C |
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| II | A |
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| Time had already thinned our chain | D |
| Time would have dulled our sense of pain | D |
| By service long and suppliance vile | E |
| We might have won our owner's smile | E |
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| III | A |
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| We spurned the thought our prison burst | F |
| And dared the despot to the worst | F |
| Renewed the strife of centuries | G |
| And flung our banner to the breeze | G |
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| IV | H |
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| We called the ends of earth to view | H |
| The gallant deeds we swore to do | H |
| They knew us wronged they knew us brave | H |
| And all we asked they freely gave | H |
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| V | H |
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| We took the starving peasant's mite | I |
| To aid in winning back his right | I |
| We took the priceless trust of youth | J |
| Their freedom must redeem our truth | J |
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| VI | H |
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| We promised loud and boasted high | H |
| To break our country's chains or die | H |
| And should we quail that country's name | K |
| Will be the synonym of shame | K |
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| VII | H |
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| Earth is not deep enough to hide | L |
| The coward slave who shrinks aside | L |
| Hell is not hot enough to scathe | J |
| The ruffian wretch who breaks his faith | J |
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| VIII | H |
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| But calm my soul we promised true | H |
| Her destined work our land shall do | H |
| Thought courage patience will prevail | B |
| We shall not fail we shall not fail | B |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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