Golu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED AFGFGHIH BJKJABLB BMNMOMIM PQAQRBBB| ONCE I had a little sweetheart | A |
| In the land of the Malay | B |
| Such a little yellow sweetheart | A |
| Warm and peerless as the day | B |
| Of her own dear sunny island | C |
| Keimah in the far far East | D |
| Where the mango and banana | E |
| Made us many a merry feast | D |
| - | |
| Such a little copper sweetheart | A |
| Was my Goln plump and round | F |
| With her hair all blue black streaming | G |
| O'er her to the very ground | F |
| Soft and clear as dew dropp clinging | G |
| To a grass blade was her eye | H |
| For the heart below was purer | I |
| Than the hill stream whispering by | H |
| - | |
| Costly robes were not for Golu | B |
| No more raiment did she need | J |
| Than the milky budding breadfruit | K |
| Or the lily of the mead | J |
| And she was my little sweetheart | A |
| Many a sunny summer day | B |
| When we ate the fragrant guavas | L |
| In the land of the Malay | B |
| - | |
| Life was laughing then Ah Golu | B |
| Do you think of that old time | M |
| And of all the tales I told you | N |
| Of my colder Western clime | M |
| Do you think how happy were we | O |
| When we sailed to strip the palm | M |
| And we made a lateen arbor | I |
| Of the boat sail in the calm | M |
| - | |
| They may call you semi savage | P |
| Golu I cannot forget | Q |
| How I poised my little sweetheart | A |
| Like a copper statuette | Q |
| Now my path lies through the cities | R |
| But they cannot drive away | B |
| My sweet dreams of little Golu | B |
| And the land of the Malay | B |
John Boyle O'reilly
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