The Irish Peasant Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFA AGEGEHAH EIEIEJEJ AKEKLAAA EMNMAAOA| She lived beside the Anner | A |
| At the foot of Slievna man | B |
| A gentle peasant girl | C |
| With mild eyes like the dawn | D |
| Her lips were dewy rosebuds | E |
| her teeth of pearls rare | A |
| And a snow drift 'neath a beechen bough | F |
| Her neck and nut brown hair | A |
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| How pleasant 'twas to meet her | A |
| On Sunday when the bell | G |
| Was filling with its mellow tones | E |
| Lone wood and grassy dell | G |
| And when at eve young maidens | E |
| Strayed the river bank along | H |
| The widow's brown haired daughter | A |
| Was loveliest of the throng | H |
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| O brave brave Irish girls | E |
| We well may call you brave | I |
| Sure the least of all your perils | E |
| Is the stormy ocean wave | I |
| When you leave our quiet valleys | E |
| And cross the Atlantic's foam | J |
| To hoard your hard won earnings | E |
| For the helpless ones at home | J |
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| Write word to my own dear mother | A |
| Say we'll meet with God above | K |
| And tell my little brothers | E |
| I send them all my love | K |
| May the angels ever guard them | L |
| Is their dying sister's prayer | A |
| And folded in a letter | A |
| Was a braid of nut brown hair | A |
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| Ah cold and well nigh callous | E |
| This weary heart has grown | M |
| For thy helpless fate dear Ireland | N |
| And for sorrows of my own | M |
| Yet a tear my eye will moister | A |
| When by Anner side I stray | A |
| For the lily of the mountain foot | O |
| That withered far away | A |
Charles Joseph Kickham
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