Poet Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum

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A Connachtman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JBKB LMKM NHOH FPQR SITI UJJJ

IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quietA
Nor my wake house a silent placeB
For who would keep back the hundredsC
Who would touch my breast and my faceB
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For the good men were always my friendsD
From Galway back into ClareE
In strength in sport and in spendingF
I was foremost at the fairE
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In music in song and in friendshipG
In contests by night and by dayH
By all who knew it was given to meI
That I bore the branch awayH
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Now let Manus Joyce my friendJ
If he be at all in the placeB
Make smooth the boards of the coffinK
They will put above my faceB
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The old men will have their storiesL
Of all the deeds in my daysM
And the young men will stand by the coffinK
And be sure and clear in my praiseM
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But the girls will stay near the doorN
And they'll have but little to sayH
They'll bend their heads the young girlsO
And for a while they will prayH
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And going home in the dawningF
They'll be quiet with the boysP
The girls will walk togetherQ
And seldom they'll lift the voiceR
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And then between daybreak and darkS
And between the hill and the seaI
Three women come down from the mountainT
Will raise the keen over meI
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But 'tis my grief that I will not hearU
When the cuckoo cries in GlenartJ
That the wind that lifts when the sails are loosedJ
Will never lift my heartJ

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