The Croppy Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHHH IIJJ KKLL MMHH NNNO FPNO| It was early early in the spring | A |
| The birds did whistle and sweetly sing | A |
| Changing their notes from tree to tree | B |
| And the song they sang was Old Ireland free | B |
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| It was early early in the night | C |
| The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright | C |
| The yeoman cavalry was my downfall | D |
| And taken was I by Lord Cornwall | D |
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| 'Twas in the guard house where I was laid | E |
| And in a parlor where I was tried | F |
| My sentence passed and my courage low | G |
| When to Dungannon I was forced to go | G |
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| As I was passing by my father's door | H |
| My brother William stood at the door | H |
| My aged father stood at the door | H |
| And my tender mother her hair she tore | H |
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| As I was walking up Wexford Street | I |
| My own first cousin I chanced to meet | I |
| My own first cousin did me betray | J |
| And for one bare guinea swore my life away | J |
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| My sister Mary heard the express | K |
| She ran upstairs in her morning dress | K |
| Five hundred guineas I will lay down | L |
| To see my brother safe in Wexford Town | L |
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| As I was walking up Wexford Hill | M |
| Who could blame me to cry my fill | M |
| I looked behind and I looked before | H |
| But my tender mother I shall ne'er see more | H |
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| As I was mounted on the platform high | N |
| My aged father was standing by | N |
| My aged father did me deny | N |
| And the name he gave me was the Croppy Boy | O |
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| It was in Dungannon this young man died | F |
| And in Dungannon his body lies | P |
| And you good Christians that do pass by | N |
| Just drop a tear for the Croppy Boy | O |
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