Old Granny Sullivan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCD EED BBD FFD GGD HHD IJKK EED HL| A pleasant shady place it is a pleasant place and cool | A |
| The township folk go up and down the children pass to school | A |
| Along the river lies my world a dear sweet world to me | B |
| I sit and learn I cannot go there is so much to see | B |
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| But Granny she has seen the world and often by her side | C |
| I sit and listen while she speaks of youthful days of pride | C |
| Old Granny's hands are clasped she wears her favourite faded shawl | D |
| I ask her this I ask her that she says 'I mind it all ' | - |
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| The boys and girls that Granny knew far o'er the seas are they | E |
| But there's no love like the old love and the old world far away | E |
| Her talk is all of wakes and fairs or how when night would fall | D |
| ''Twas many a quare thing crept and came ' and Granny 'minds them all ' | - |
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| The day she first met Sullivan she tells it all to me | B |
| How she was hardly twenty one and he was twenty three | B |
| The courting days the kissing days but bitter things befall | D |
| The bravest hearts that plan and dream Old Granny 'minds it all ' | - |
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| Her wedding dress I know by heart yes every flounce and frill | F |
| And the little home they lived in first with the garden on the hill | F |
| 'Twas there her baby boy was born and neighbours came to call | D |
| But none had seen a boy like Jim and Granny 'minds it all ' | - |
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| They had their fights in those old days but Sullivan was strong | G |
| A smart quick man at anything 'twas hard to put him wrong | G |
| One day they brought him from the mine The big salt tears will fall | D |
| ''Twas long ago God rest his soul ' Poor Granny 'minds it all ' | - |
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| The first dark days of widowhood the weary days and slow | H |
| The grim disheartening uphill fight then Granny lived to know | H |
| 'The childer ' ah they grew and grew sound rosy cheeked and tall | D |
| 'The childer' still they are to her Old Granny 'minds them all ' | - |
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| How well she loved her little brood Oh Granny's heart was brave | I |
| She gave to them her love and faith all that the good God have | J |
| They change not with the changing years as babies just the same | K |
| She feels for them though some alas have brought her grief and shame | K |
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| The big world called them here and there and many a mile away | E |
| They cannot come she cannot go the darkness haunts the day | E |
| And I no flesh and blood of hers sit here while shadows fall | D |
| I sit and listen Granny talks for Granny 'minds them all ' | - |
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| Just fancy Granny Sullivan at seventeen or so | H |
| In all the floating fin | L |
John Shaw Neilson
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