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