Girls Spinning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABCD ABCD EFFDD GHHII JJDD KKJJABCDBCD ABCD ABCD LDLJL CDCD MNJN OPNP ANND NND ANNDANND EDDQD RJRJ STNT DUDU NVWV NFXF ANND

FIRST GIRLA
MALLO lero iss im bo neroB
Go where they're threshing and find me my loverC
Mallo lero iss im bo bairnD
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SECOND GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
Who shall I bring you Rody the RoverC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
Listen and hear what he's singing overC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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A man's voice singsE
I went out m the evening my sweetheart for to findF
I stood by her cottage window as well I do mindF
I stood by her cottage window and I thought I would get inD
But instead of pleasures for me my sorrows did beginD
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Fine colour had my darling though it wasn't me wasG
thereH
I did not sit beside her but inside there was a pairH
I stood outside the window like a poor neglected soulI
And I waited till my own name was brought across the coalI
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Here's a health unto the blackbird that sings upon the treeJ
And here's to the willy wagtail that goes the road with meJ
Here's a health unto my darling and to them she makes her ownD
She's deserving of good company for me I go my loneD
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My love she is courteous and handsome and tallK
For wit and for behaviour she's foremost of them allK
She says she is in no way bound that with me she'll go freeJ
But my love has too many lovers to have any love for meJ
FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
Who weds him might cry with the wandering ploverC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
Where they're breaking the horses go find me my loverC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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SECOND GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
Him with the strong hand I will bring from the cloverC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroB
I wait till I hear what he's singing overC
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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Another man s voiceL
Are they not the good men of EirinnD
Who give not their thought nor their voiceL
To fortune but take without dowryJ
The maids of their choiceL
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For the trout has sport in the riverC
Whether prices be up or low downD
And the salmon he slips through the waterC
Not heeding the townD
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Then if she the love of my bosomM
Did laugh as she stood by my doorN
O Fd rise then and draw her in to meJ
With kisses go leorN
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It's not likely the wind in the tree topsO
Would trouble our love nor our restP
Not the hurrying footsteps would draw herN
My love from my breastP
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FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroN
He sings to the girsha in the hazel wood coverN
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
-
Mallo lero iss im bo neroN
Go where they're shearing and find me my loverN
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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SECOND GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroN
The newly come youth is looking straight overN
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroN
If you mind what he sings you'll have silver troverN
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD
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A young man's voice singsE
Once I went over the oceanD
On a ship that was bound for proud SpainD
Some people were singing and dancingQ
But I had a heart full of painD
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I'll put now a sail on the lakeR
That's between my treasure and meJ
And I'll sail over the lakeR
Till I come to the Joyce countryJ
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She'll hear my boat on the shinglesS
And she'll hear my step on the landT
And the corncrake deep in the meadowN
Will tell her that I'm at handT
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The summer comes to Glen NefinD
With heavy dew on the leasU
With the gathering of wild honeyD
To the tops of all the treesU
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In honey and dew the summerN
Upon the ground is shedV
And the cuckoo cries until darkW
Where my storeen has her bedV
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And if O'Hanlon's daughterN
Will give me a welcome kindF
O never will my sail be turnedX
To a harsh and a heavy windF
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FIRST GIRLA
Mallo lero iss im bo neroN
Welcome I'll give him over and overN
Mallo lero iss im bo baunD

Padraic Colum



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