Roger Casement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DEAF ABBB BGBH IBJB KBDB| After reading 'The Forged Casement Diaries' by Dr Maloney | A |
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| I say that Roger Casement | B |
| Did what he had to do | B |
| He died upon the gallows | C |
| But that is nothing new | B |
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| Afraid they might be beaten | D |
| Before the bench of Time | E |
| They turned a trick by forgery | A |
| And blackened his good name | F |
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| A perjurer stood ready | A |
| To prove their forgery true | B |
| They gave it out to all the world | B |
| And that is something new | B |
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| For Spring Rice had to whisper it | B |
| Being their Ambassador | G |
| And then the speakers got it | B |
| And writers by the score | H |
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| Come Tom and Dick come all the troop | I |
| That cried it far and wide | B |
| Come from the forger and his desk | J |
| Desert the perjurer's side | B |
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| Come speak your bit in public | K |
| That some amends be made | B |
| To this most gallant gentleman | D |
| That is in quicklime laid | B |
William Butler Yeats
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