A Lament For Fair-haired Donough That Was Hanged In Galway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJHK HHLM KNOP QHRE STUV HWXS HKYG ZA2B2C2| It was bound fast here you saw him and wondered to see him | A |
| Our fair haired Donough and he after being condemned | B |
| There was a little white cap on him in place of a hat | C |
| And a hempen rope in the place of a neck cloth | D |
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| I am after walking here all through the night | E |
| Like a young lamb in a great flock of sheep | F |
| My breast open my hair loosened out | G |
| And how did I find my brother but stretched before me | H |
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| The first place I cried my fill was at the top of the lake | I |
| The second place was at the foot of the gallows | J |
| The third place was at the head of your dead body | H |
| Among the Gall and my own head as if cut in two | K |
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| If you were with me in the place you had a right to be | H |
| Down in Sligo or down in Ballinrobe | H |
| It is the gallows would be broken it is the rope would be cut | L |
| And fair haired Donough going home by the path | M |
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| O fair haired Donough it is not the gallows was fit for you | K |
| But to be going to the barn to be threshing out the straw | N |
| To be turning the plough to the right hand and to the left | O |
| To be putting the red side of the soil uppermost | P |
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| O fair haired Donough O dear brother | Q |
| It is well I know who it was took you away from me | H |
| Drinking from the cup putting a light to the pipe | R |
| And walking in the dew in the cover of the night | E |
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| O Michael Malley O scourge of misfortune | S |
| My brother was no calf of a vagabond cow | T |
| But a well shaped boy on a height or a hillside | U |
| To knock a low pleasant sound out of a hurling stick | V |
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| And fair haired Donough is not that the pity | H |
| You that would carry well a spur or a boot | W |
| I would put clothes in the fashion on you from cloth that would be lasting | X |
| I would send you out like a gentleman's son | S |
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| O Michael Malley may your sons never be in one another's company | H |
| May your daughters never ask a marriage portion of you | K |
| The two ends of the table are empty the house is filled | Y |
| And fair haired Donough my brother is stretched out | G |
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| There is a marriage portion coming home for Donough | Z |
| But it is not cattle or sheep or horses | A2 |
| But tobacco and pipes and white candles | B2 |
| And it will not be begrudged to them that will use it | C2 |
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
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