The Love-talker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCC DDEE FFBB BBGG HHII JJKK| I met the Love Talker one eve in the glen | A |
| He was handsomer than any of our handsome young men | A |
| His eyes were blacker than the sloe his voice sweeter far | B |
| Than the crooning of old Kevin's pipes beyond in Coolnagar | B |
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| I was bound for the milking with a heart fair and free | B |
| My grief my grief that bitter hour drained the life from me | B |
| I thought him human lover though his lips on mine were cold | C |
| And the breath of death blew keen on me within his hold | C |
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| I know not what way he came no shadow fell behind | D |
| But all the sighing rushes swayed beneath a faery wind | D |
| The thrush ceased its singing a mist crept about | E |
| We two clung together with the world shut out | E |
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| Beyond the ghostly mist I could hear my cattle low | F |
| The little cow from Ballina clean as driven snow | F |
| The dun cow from Kerry the roan from Inisheer | B |
| Oh pitiful their calling and his whispers in my ear | B |
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| His eyes were a fire his words were a snare | B |
| I cried my mother's name but no help was there | B |
| I made the blessed Sign then he gave a dreary moan | G |
| A wisp of cloud went floating by and I stood alone | G |
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| Running ever through my head is an old time rune | H |
| Who meets the Love Talker must weave her shroud soon | H |
| My mother's face is furrowed with the salt tears that fall | I |
| But the kind eyes of my father are the saddest sight of all | I |
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| I have spun the fleecy lint and now my wheel is still | J |
| The linen length is woven for my shroud fine and chill | J |
| I shall stretch me on the bed where a happy maid I lay | K |
| Pray for the soul of Mair eacute Og at dawning of the day | K |
Ethna Carbery
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