Allalu Mo Wauleen (the Beggar-s Address To His Bag) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEF CGCG CCCCHIHI CGCG CJCJCKCK CGCG LLMNANAL CACA COCOCICI CGCG CPCPQRQR CRCR| GOOD neighbors dear be cautious | A |
| And covet no man s pounds or pence | B |
| Ambition s greedy maw shun | C |
| And tread the path of innocence | D |
| Dread crooked ways and cheating | E |
| And be not like those hounds of Hell | F |
| Like prowling wolves awaiting | E |
| Which once upon my footsteps fell | F |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| My little bag I treasured it | G |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| A thousand times I measured it | G |
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| Should you ever reach Dungarvan | C |
| That wretched hole of dole and sin | C |
| Be on your sharpest guard man | C |
| Or the eyes out of your head they ll pin | C |
| Since I left sweet Tipperary | H |
| They eased me of my cherished load | I |
| And left me light and airy | H |
| A poor dark man upon the road | I |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| No hole no stitch no rent in it | G |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| My half year s rent was pent in it | G |
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| A gay gold ring unbroken | C |
| A token to a fair young maid | J |
| Which told of love unspoken | C |
| To one whose hopes were long delayed | J |
| A pair of woolen hoseen | C |
| Close knitted without rub or seam | K |
| And a pound of weed well chosen | C |
| Such as smokers taste in dream | K |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| Such a store I had in it | G |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| And nothing mean or bad in it | G |
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| Full oft in cosy corner | L |
| We d sit beside a winter fire | L |
| Nor envied prince or lord or | M |
| To kingly rank did we aspire | N |
| But twice they overhauled us | A |
| The dark police of aspect dire | N |
| Because they feared Mo Chairdeas | A |
| You held the dreaded Fenian fire | L |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| My bag and me they sundered us | A |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| My bag of bags they sundered us | A |
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| Yourself and I mo st reen | C |
| At every hour of night and day | O |
| Through road and lane and bohreen | C |
| Without complaint we made our way | O |
| Till one sore day a carman | C |
| In pity took us from the road | I |
| And faced us towards Dungarvan | C |
| Where mortal sin hath firm abode | I |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| Without a hole or rent in it | G |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| My half year s rent was pent in it | G |
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| My curses attend Dungarvan | C |
| Her boats her borough and her fish | P |
| May every woe that mars man | C |
| Come dancing down upon her dish | P |
| For all the rogues behind you | Q |
| From Slaney s bank to Shannon s tide | R |
| Are but poor scholars mind you | Q |
| To the rogues you d meet in Abbeyside | R |
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| An allalu mo wauleen | C |
| My little bag I treasured it | R |
| Twas stuffed from string to sauleen | C |
| A thousand times I measured it | R |
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