Barney Mcgee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBBBCCCBAAAB BBBBDDDBEEEBAAAB BBBBFFFBBBBBAAAB BBBBBBBBBEBBAAAB BBBBBBBBGGGBAAAB BBBBCCCCCCCCAAAC CCCCCCCCBBBCAAACBarney McGee there's no end of good luck in you | A |
Will o' the wisp with a flicker of Puck in you | A |
Wild as a bull pup and all of his pluck in you | A |
Let a man tread on your coat and he'll see | B |
Eyes like the lakes of Killarney for clarity | B |
Nose that turns up without any vulgarity | B |
Smile like a cherub and hair that is carroty | B |
Wow you're a rarity Barney McGee | B |
Mellow as Tarragon | C |
Prouder than Aragon | C |
Hardly a paragon | C |
You will agree | B |
Here's all that's fine to you | A |
Books and old wine to you | A |
Girls be divine to you | A |
Barney McGee | B |
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Lucky the day when I met you unwittingly | B |
Dining where vagabonds came and went flittingly | B |
Here's some Barbera to drink it befittingly | B |
That day at Silvio's Barney McGee | B |
Many's the time we have quaffed our Chianti there | D |
Listened to Silvio quoting us Dante there | D |
Once more to drink Nebiolo spumante there | D |
How we'd pitch Pommery into the sea | B |
There where the gang of us | E |
Met ere Rome rang of us | E |
They had the hang of us | E |
To a degree | B |
How they would trust to you | A |
That was but just to you | A |
Here's o'er their dust to you | A |
Barney McGee | B |
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Barney McGee when you're sober you scintillate | B |
But when you're in drink you're the pride of the intellect | B |
Divil a one of us ever came in till late | B |
Once at the bar where you happened to be | B |
Every eye there like a spoke in you centering | F |
You with your eloquence blarney and bantering | F |
All Vagabondia shouts at your entering | F |
King of the Tenderloin Barney McGee | B |
There's no satiety | B |
In your society | B |
With the variety | B |
Of your esprit | B |
Here's a long purse to you | A |
And a great thirst to you | A |
Fate be no worse to you | A |
Barney McGee | B |
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Och and the girls whose poor hearts you deracinate | B |
Whirl and bewilder and flutter and fascinate | B |
Faith it's so killing you are you assassinate | B |
Murder's the word for you Barney McGee | B |
Bold when they're sunny and smooth when they're showery | B |
Oh but the style of you fluent and flowery | B |
Chesterfield's way with a touch of the Bowery | B |
How would they silence you Barney machree | B |
Naught can your gab allay | B |
Learned as Rabelais | E |
You in his abbey lay | B |
Once on the spree | B |
Here's to the smile of you | A |
Oh but the guile of you | A |
And a long while of you | A |
Barney McGee | B |
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Facile with phrases of length and Latinity | B |
Like honorificabilitudinity | B |
Where is the maid could resist your vicinity | B |
Wiled by the impudent grace of your plea | B |
Then your vivacity and pertinacity | B |
Carry the day with the divil's audacity | B |
No mere veracity robs your sagacity | B |
Of perspicacity Barney McGee | B |
When all is new to them | G |
What will you do to them | G |
Will you be true to them | G |
Who shall decree | B |
Here's a fair strife to you | A |
Health and long life to you | A |
And a great wife to you | A |
Barney McGee | B |
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Barney McGee you're the pick of gentility | B |
Nothing can phase you you've such a facility | B |
Nobody ever yet found your utility | B |
That is the charm of you Barney McGee | B |
Under conditions that others would stammer in | C |
Still unperturbed as a cat or a Cameron | C |
Polished as somebody in the Decameron | C |
Putting the glamour on prince or Pawnee | C |
In your meanderin' | C |
Love and philanderin' | C |
Calm as a mandarin | C |
Sipping his tea | C |
Under the art of you | A |
Parcel and part of you | A |
Here's to the heart of you | A |
Barney McGee | C |
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You who were ever alert to befriend a man | C |
You who were ever the first to defend a man | C |
You who had always the money to lend a man | C |
Down on his luck and hard up for a V | C |
Sure you'll be playing a harp in beatitude | C |
And a quare sight you will be in that attitude | C |
Some day where gratitude seems but a platitude | C |
You'll find your latitude Barney McGee | C |
That's no flim flam at all | B |
Frivol or sham at all | B |
Just the plain Damn it all | B |
Have one with me | C |
Here's luck and more to you | A |
Friends by the score to you | A |
True to the core to you | A |
Barney McGee | C |
Bliss Carman (william)
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