Have You Been At Carrick? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AABB AACC DDEE FGHH IIBB| Have you been at Carrick and saw my true love there | A |
| And saw you her features all beautiful bright and fair | A |
| Saw you the most fragrant flowering sweet apple tree | B |
| Oh saw you my loved one and pines she in grief like me | B |
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| I have been at Carrick and saw thy own true love there | A |
| And saw too her features all beautiful bright and fair | A |
| And saw the most fragrant flowering sweet apple tree | B |
| I saw thy loved one she pines not in grief like thee | B |
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| Five guineas would price every tress of her golden hair | A |
| Then think what a treasure her pillow at night to share | A |
| These tresses thick clustering and curling around her brow | C |
| Oh Ringlet of Fairness I'll drink to thy beauty now | C |
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| When seeking to slumber my bosom is rent with sighs | D |
| I toss on my pillow till morning's blest beams arise | D |
| No aid bright Beloved can reach me save God above | E |
| For a blood lake is formed of the light of my eyes with love | E |
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| Until yellow Autumn shall usher the Paschal day | F |
| And Patrick's gay festival come in its train alway | G |
| Although through my coffin the blossoming boughs shall grow | H |
| My love on another I'll never in life bestow | H |
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| Lo yonder the maiden illustrious queen like high | I |
| With long flowing tresses adown to her sandal tie | I |
| Swan fair as the lily descended of high degree | B |
| A myriad of welcomes dear maid of my heart to thee | B |
Edward Walsh
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