O-grady-s Little Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDBB EEDD FFGG HHCC DDII BBDD BBCC| Her hair was dark and curly floatin to the saddle bow | A |
| Her laugh was frank and girlish and her voice was sweet and low | B |
| When I was one and twenty sure my heart was in a whirl | C |
| Ridin neath the blossomed gum trees with O Grady s little girl | C |
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| And ah The dear grey eyes of her all truth and purity | D |
| What a beacon light to goodness such a colleen s eyes can be | D |
| The blazed a track to Heaven for me an it struck me like a blow | B |
| When O Grady left the township just twenty years ago | B |
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| In those years I ve grown and prospered sure the township s half me own | E |
| But my heart s been empty aching since she left me all alone | E |
| Now we ve got a Back to She Oak week celebratin royally | D |
| And Nora s coming home again to join the revelry | D |
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| I ll know her by here wild rose face her floatin curling hair | F |
| By the neat black skirt and frilly blouse she always loved to wear | F |
| I ve never looked at wimmin since but at the township ball | G |
| I ll tell her all my faithful love my hopes and dreams and all | G |
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| Oh the band is playing gaily but alone I sit apart | H |
| Watching all the merry dancers with a sore and aching heart | H |
| Gaily old friends greet each other but my head is in a whirl | C |
| As I watcher her twirling past me Dan O Grady s little girl | C |
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| She s grown stout she s got a shingle and her skirt s just on her knee | D |
| Sure the girl that I remember s not the girl she used to be | D |
| And the merry lilting music ringing out into the night | I |
| Seems to mock my dying fancies and my dream of lost delight | I |
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| Now the band is playing softly tis the waltz we used to know | B |
| And I ll have to ask her for it for the sake of long ago | B |
| But ah The dear grey eyes of her uplifted now to me | D |
| And the unchanged heart beneath them full of truth and purity | D |
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| Tis a woman s heart that matters fashions come and fashions go | B |
| And what signifies a shingle for a shingle sure can grow | B |
| All my lonely years are over I m as happy as an earl | C |
| Looking forward to the future with O Grady s little girl | C |
Alice Guerin Crist
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