Three Marching Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFF GHHI BJKLMN GHHI OPQPQR GHHI A STGTUV PWXP XYXYZA2 PXXP B2XXXMS PXXP A PXC2 XX NMHH C2XD2 M NMMN C2E2F2E2XX NMMN

IA
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Remember all those renowned generationsB
They left their bodies to fatten the wolvesC
They left their homesteads to fatten the foxesD
Fled to far countries or sheltered themselvesE
In cavern crevice or holeF
Defending Ireland's soulF
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Be still be still what can be saidG
My father sang that songH
But time amends old wrongH
All that is finished let it fadeI
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Remember all those renowned generationsB
Remember all that have sunk in their bloodJ
Remember all that have died on the scaffoldK
Remember all that have fled that have stoodL
Stood took death like a tuneM
On an old tambourineN
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Be still be still what can be saidG
My father sang that songH
But time amends old wrongH
And all that's finished let it fadeI
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Fail and that history turns into rubbishO
All that great past to a trouble of foolsP
Those that come after shall mock at O'DonnellQ
Mock at the memory of both O'NeillsP
Mock Emmet mock ParnellQ
All the renown that fellR
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Be still be still what can be saidG
My father sang that songH
but time amends old wrongH
And all that's finished let it fadeI
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IIA
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The soldier takes pride in saluting his CaptainS
The devotee proffers a knee to his LordT
Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbredG
Troy backed its Helen Troy died and adoredT
Great nations blossom aboveU
A slave bows down to a slaveV
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What marches through the mountain passP
No no my son not yetW
That is an airy spotX
And no man knows what treads the grassP
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We know what rascal might has defiledX
The lofty innocence that it has slainY
Were we not born in the peasant's cotX
Where men forgive if the belly gainY
More dread the life that we liveZ
How can the mind forgiveA2
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What marches down the mountain passP
No no my son not yetX
That is an airy spotX
And no man knows what treads the grassP
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What if there's nothing up there at the topB2
Where are the captains that govern mankindX
What tears down a tree that has nothing within itX
A blast of the wind O a marching windX
March wind and any old tuneM
March march and how does it runS
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What marches down the mountain passP
No no my son not yetX
That is an airy spotX
And no man knows what treads the grassP
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IIIA
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Grandfather sang it under the gallowsP
Hear gentlemen ladies and all mankindX
Money is good and a girl might be betterC2
But good strong blows are delights to the mind '-
There standing on the cartX
He sang it from his heartX
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Robbers had taken his old tambourineN
But he took down the moonM
And rattled out a tuncH
Robbers had taken his old tambourincH
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A girl I had but she followed anotherC2
Money I had and it went in the nightX
Strong drink I had and it brought me to sorrowD2
But a good strong cause and blows are delight '-
All there caught up the tuneM
Oh on my darling man '-
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Robbers had taken his old tambourineN
But he took down the moonM
And rattled out a tuneM
Robbers had taken his old tambourineN
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Money is good and a girl might be betterC2
No matter what happens and who takes the fallE2
But a good strong cause' the rope gave a jerk thereF2
No more sang he for his throat was too smallE2
But he kicked before he diedX
He did it out of prideX
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Robbers had taken his old tambourineN
But he took down the moonM
And rattled out a tuneM
Robbers had taken his old tambourineN

William Butler Yeats



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