September 1913 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDED IJIJCDED KLMNMDMD| What need you being come to sense | A |
| But fumble in a greasy till | B |
| And add the halfpence to the pence | A |
| And prayer to shivering prayer until | B |
| You have dried the marrow from the bone | C |
| For men were born to pray and save | D |
| Romantic Ireland's dead and gone | E |
| It's with O'Leary in the grave | D |
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| Yet they were of a different kind | F |
| The names that stilled your childish play | G |
| They have gone about the world like wind | F |
| But little time had they to pray | G |
| For whom the hangman's rope was spun | H |
| And what God help us could they save | D |
| Romantic Ireland's dead and gone | E |
| It's with O'Leary in the grave | D |
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| Was it for this the wild geese spread | I |
| The grey wing upon every tide | J |
| For this that all that blood was shed | I |
| For this Edward Fitzgerald died | J |
| And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone | C |
| All that delirium of the brave | D |
| Romantic Ireland's dead and gone | E |
| It's with O'Leary in the grave | D |
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| Yet could we turn the years again | K |
| And call those exiles as they were | L |
| In all their loneliness and pain | M |
| You'd cry 'Some woman's yellow hair | N |
| Has maddened every mother's son' | M |
| They weighed so lightly what they gave | D |
| But let them be they're dead and gone | M |
| They're with O'Leary in the grave | D |
William Butler Yeats
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