The Grief Of A Girl's Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A C D E F G H A I J A| O Donall og if you go across the sea bring myself with you and do not forget it and you will have a sweetheart for fair days and market days and the daughter of the King of Greece beside you at night It is late last night the dog was speaking of you the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh It is you are the lonely bird through the woods and that you may be without a mate until you find me | A |
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| You promised me and you said a lie to me that you would be before me where the sheep are flocked I gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you and I found nothing there but a bleating lamb | B |
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| You promised me a thing that was hard for you a ship of gold under a silver mast twelve towns with a market in all of them and a fine white court by the side of the sea | A |
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| You promised me a thing that is not possible that you would give me gloves of the skin of a fish that you would give me shoes of the skin of a bird and a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland | C |
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| O Donall og it is I would be better to you than a high proud spendthrift lady I would milk the cow I would bring help to you and if you were hard pressed I would strike a blow for you | D |
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| O ochone and it's not with hunger or with wanting food or drink or sleep that I am growing thin and my life is shortened but it is the love of a young man has withered me away | E |
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| It is early in the morning that I saw him coming going along the road on the back of a horse he did not come to me he made nothing of me and it is on my way home that I cried my fill | F |
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| When I go by myself to the Well of Loneliness I sit down and I go through my trouble when I see the world and do not see my boy he that has an amber shade in his hair | G |
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| It was on that Sunday I gave my love to you the Sunday that is last before Easter Sunday And myself on my knees reading the Passion and my two eyes giving love to you for ever | H |
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| O aya my mother give myself to him and give him all that you have in the world get out yourself to ask for alms and do not come back and forward looking for me | A |
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| My mother said to me not to be talking with you to day or to morrow or on the Sunday it was a bad time she took for telling me that it was shutting the door after the house was robbed | I |
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| My heart is as black as the blackness of the sloe or as the black coal that is on the smith's forge or as the sole of a shoe left in white halls it was you put that darkness over my life | J |
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| You have taken the east from me you have taken the west from me you have taken what is before me and what is behind me you have taken the moon you have taken the sun from me and my fear is great that you have taken God from me | A |
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
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