An Drinaun Donn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDD EEFF GHHCC IJKLMNM OOP| A HUNDRED men think I am theirs when with them I | A |
| drink ale | B |
| But their presence fades away from me and their high spirits fail | B |
| When I think upon your converse kind by the meadow | C |
| and the linn | D |
| And your form smoother than the silk on the Mountain of O'Flynn | D |
| - | |
| Oh Paddy is it pain to you that I'm wasting night and day | E |
| And Paddy is it grief to you that I'll soon be in the clay | E |
| My first love with the winning mouth my treasure you'll abide | F |
| Till the narrow coffin closes me and the grass grows through my side | F |
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| The man who strains to leap the wall we think him | G |
| foolish still | H |
| When to his hand is the easy ditch to vault across at will | H |
| The rowan tree is fine and high but bitter its berries grow | C |
| While blackberries and raspberries are on shrubs that blossom low | C |
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| Farewell farewell forever to yon town amongst the trees | I |
| Farewell the town that draws me on mornings and on | J |
| eves | K |
| Oh many's the ugly morass now and many's the crooked | L |
| road | M |
| That lie henceforth between me and where my heart's | N |
| bestowed | M |
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| And Mary Ever Virgin where will I turn my head | O |
| I know not where his house is built nor where his fields are spread | O |
| Ah kindly was the counsel that my kinsfolk gave to me | P |
| 'The hundred twists are in his heart and the thousand tricks has he ' | - |
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