The County Of Mayo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDCC EECC FFCC| From the Irish of Thomas Lavelle | A |
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| On the deck of Patrick Lynch's boat I sat in woful plight | B |
| Through my sighing all the weary day and weeping all the night | B |
| Were it not that full of sorrow from my people forth I go | C |
| By the bless egrave d sun 'tis royally I'd sing thy praise Mayo | C |
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| When I dwelt at home in plenty and my gold did much abound | D |
| In the company of fair young maids the Spanish ale went round | D |
| 'Tis a bitter change from those gay days that now I'm forced to go | C |
| And must leave my bones in Santa Cruz far from my own Mayo | C |
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| They are alter'd girls in Irrul now 'tis proud they're grown and high | E |
| With their hair bags and their top knots for I pass their buckles by | E |
| But it 's little now I heed their airs for God will have it so | C |
| That I must depart for foreign lands and leave my sweet Mayo | C |
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| 'Tis my grief that Patrick Loughlin is not Earl of Irrul still | F |
| And that Brian Duff no longer rules as Lord upon the hill | F |
| And that Colonel Hugh McGrady should be lying dead and low | C |
| And I sailing sailing swiftly from the county of Mayo | C |
George Fox
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