Pearl Of The White Breast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB BBDEED FFEGGE HHGIIG| There's a colleen fair as May | A |
| For a year and for a day | A |
| I've sought by every way her heart to gain | B |
| There's no art of tongue or eye | C |
| Fond youths with maidens try | C |
| But I've tried with ceaseless sigh yet tried in vain | B |
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| If to France or far off Spain | B |
| She'd cross the watery main | B |
| To see her face again the sea I'd brave | D |
| And if 'tis Heaven's decree | E |
| That mine she may not be | E |
| May the Son of Mary me in mercy save | D |
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| O thou blooming milk white dove | F |
| To whom I've given true love | F |
| Do not ever thus reprove my constancy | E |
| There are maidens would be mine | G |
| With wealth in hand and kine | G |
| If my heart would but incline to turn from thee | E |
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| But a kiss with welcome bland | H |
| And a touch of thy dear hand | H |
| Are all that I demand wouldst thou not spurn | G |
| For if not mine dear girl | I |
| O Snowy Breasted Pearl | I |
| May I never from the fair with life return | G |
George Petrie
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