The O'rahilly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGH AIAIJBFBH KLM ANO H PQRSTUAGH| Sing of the O'Rahilly | A |
| Do not deny his right | B |
| Sing a 'the' before his name | C |
| Allow that he despite | B |
| All those learned historians | D |
| Established it for good | E |
| He wrote out that word himself | F |
| He christened himself with blood | G |
| How goes the weather | H |
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| Sing of the O'Rahilly | A |
| That had such little sense | I |
| He told Pearse and Connolly | A |
| He'd gone to great expense | I |
| Keeping all the Kerry men | J |
| Out of that crazy fight | B |
| That he might be there himself | F |
| Had travelled half the night | B |
| How goes the weather | H |
| - | |
| 'Am I such a craven that | K |
| I should not get the word | L |
| But for what some travelling man | M |
| Had heard I had not heard ' | - |
| Then on pearse and Connolly | A |
| He fixed a bitter look | N |
| 'Because I helped to wind the clock | O |
| I come to hear it strike ' | - |
| How goes the weather | H |
| - | |
| What remains to sing about | P |
| But of the death he met | Q |
| Stretched under a doorway | R |
| Somewhere off Henry Street | S |
| They that found him found upon | T |
| The door above his head | U |
| 'Here died the O'Rahilly | A |
| R I P ' writ in blood | G |
| How goes the weather | H |
William Butler Yeats
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