Aghadoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA AACA AADA AAAA AAAA AAEA AABA| There's a glade in Aghadoe Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| There's a green and silent glade in Aghadoe | A |
| Where we met my love and I Love's fair planet in the sky | B |
| O'er that sweet and silent glade in Aghadoe | A |
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| There's a glen in Aghadoe Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| There's a deep and secret glen in Aghadoe | A |
| Where I hid from the eyes of the red coats and their spies | C |
| That year the trouble came to Aghadoe | A |
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| O my curse on one black heart in Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| On Shaun Dhu my mother's son in Aghadoe | A |
| When your throat fries in hell's drouth salt the flame be in your mouth | D |
| For the treachery you did in Aghadoe | A |
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| For they track'd me to that glen in Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| When the price was on his head in Aghadoe | A |
| O'er the mountain through the wood as I stole to him with food | A |
| Where in hiding lone he lay in Aghadoe | A |
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| But they never took him living in Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| With the bullets in his heart in Aghadoe | A |
| There he lay the head my breast keeps the warmth of where 'twould rest | A |
| Gone to win the traitor's gold from Aghadoe | A |
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| I walk'd to Mallow town from Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| Brought his head from the gaol's gate to Aghadoe | A |
| Then I cover'd him with fern and I piled on him the cairn | E |
| Like an Irish King he sleeps in Aghadoe | A |
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| O to creep into that cairn in Aghadoe Aghadoe | A |
| There to rest upon his breast in Aghadoe | A |
| Sure your dog for you could die with no truer heart than I | B |
| Your own love cold on your cairn in Aghadoe | A |
John Todhunter
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