The County Mayo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FCFC| Now with the coming in of the spring the days will stretch a bit | A |
| And after the Feast of Brigid I shall hoist my flag and go | B |
| For since the thought got into my head I can neither stand nor sit | A |
| Until I find myself in the middle of the County of Mayo | B |
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| In Claremorris I would stop a night and sleep with decent men | C |
| And then go on to Balla just beyond and drink galore | D |
| And next to Kiltimagh for a visit of about a month and then | C |
| I would only be a couple of miles away from Ballymore | D |
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| I say and swear my heart lifts up like the lifting of a tide | E |
| Rising up like the rising wind till fog or mist must go | B |
| When I remember Carra and Gallen close beside | E |
| And the Gap of the Two Bushes and the wide plains of Mayo | B |
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| To Killaden then to the place where everything grows that is best | F |
| There are raspberries there and strawberries there and all that is good for men | C |
| And if I were only there in the middle of my folk my heart could rest | F |
| For age itself would leave me there and I'd be young again | C |
James Stephens
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