Parnell's Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFG HIJKLKMN OCOPODQQ ARASASTT A UQVQ UWUW XYFEI | A |
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Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd | B |
A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown | C |
About the sky where that is clear of cloud | B |
Brightness remains a brighter star shoots down | D |
What shudders run through all that animal blood | E |
What is this sacrifice Can someone there | F |
Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star | G |
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Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through | H |
A frenzied crowd and where the branches sprang | I |
A beautiful seated boy a sacred bow | J |
A woman and an arrow on a string | K |
A pierced boy image of a star laid low | L |
That woman the Great Mother imaging | K |
Cut out his heart Some master of design | M |
Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin | N |
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An age is the reversal of an age | O |
When strangers murdered Emmet Fitzgerald Tone | C |
We lived like men that watch a painted stage | O |
What matter for the scene the scene once gone | P |
It had not touched our lives But popular rage | O |
Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down | D |
None shared our guilt nor did we play a part | Q |
Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart | Q |
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Come fix upon me that accusing eye | A |
I thirst for accusation All that was sung | R |
All that was said in Ireland is a lie | A |
Bred out of the c ontagion of the throng | S |
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die | A |
Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong | S |
To this bare soul let all men judge that can | T |
Whether it be an animal or a man | T |
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II | A |
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The rest I pass one sentence I unsay | U |
Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart | Q |
No loose lipped demagogue had won the day | V |
No civil rancour torn the land apart | Q |
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Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart the land's | U |
Imagination had been satisfied | W |
Or lacking that government in such hands | U |
O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died | W |
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Had even O'Duffy but I name no more | X |
Their school a crowd his master solitude | Y |
Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed and there | F |
plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood | E |
William Butler Yeats
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