An Old Woman Of The Roads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JFKF LMNO PGQG| O to have a little house | A |
| To own the hearth and stool and all | B |
| The heaped up sods against the fire | C |
| The pile of turf against the wall | B |
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| To have a clock with weights and chains | D |
| And pendulum swinging up and down | E |
| A dresser filled with shining delph | F |
| Speckled and white and blue and brown | E |
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| I could be busy all the day | G |
| Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor | H |
| And fixing on their shelf again | I |
| My white and blue and speckled store | H |
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| I could be quiet there at night | J |
| Beside the fire and by myself | F |
| Sure of a bed and loth to leave | K |
| The ticking clock and the shining delph | F |
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| Och but I'm weary of mist and dark | L |
| And roads where there's never a house nor bush | M |
| And tired I am of bog and road | N |
| And the crying wind and the lonesome hush | O |
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| And I am praying to God on high | P |
| And I am praying Him night and day | G |
| For a little house a house of my own | Q |
| Out of the wind's and the rain's way | G |
Padraic Colum
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