The Wearin' O' The Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDEE FFBB| Oh Paddy dear and did ye hear the news that's goin' round | A |
| The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground | A |
| No more St Patrick's day we'll keep his colour can't be seen | B |
| For there's a cruel law ag'in' the Wearin' o' the Green | B |
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| I met with Napper Tandy and he took me by the hand | C |
| And he said How's poor ould Ireland and how does she stand | C |
| She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen | B |
| For they're hanging men and women there for the Wearin' o' the Green | B |
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| An' if the colour we must wear is England's cruel red | D |
| Let it remind us of the blood that Ireland has shed | D |
| Then pull the shamrock from your hat and throw it on the sod | E |
| An' never fear 'twill take root there though under foot 'tis trod | E |
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| When law can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow | F |
| An' when the leaves in summer time their colour dare not show | F |
| Then I will change the colour too I wear in my caubeen | B |
| But till that day plaise God I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green | B |
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Kaye Mc Gann: I heard this sung in Ireland when I was a child, and have always remembered a few lines of it, seventy years on. I've never seen it written until today.
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