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 ANNDFIRST GIRL | A |
MALLO lero iss im bo nero | B |
Go where they're threshing and find me my lover | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo bairn | D |
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SECOND GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
Who shall I bring you Rody the Rover | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
Listen and hear what he's singing over | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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A man's voice sings | E |
I went out m the evening my sweetheart for to find | F |
I stood by her cottage window as well I do mind | F |
I stood by her cottage window and I thought I would get in | D |
But instead of pleasures for me my sorrows did begin | D |
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Fine colour had my darling though it wasn't me was | G |
there | H |
I did not sit beside her but inside there was a pair | H |
I stood outside the window like a poor neglected soul | I |
And I waited till my own name was brought across the coal | I |
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Here's a health unto the blackbird that sings upon the tree | J |
And here's to the willy wagtail that goes the road with me | J |
Here's a health unto my darling and to them she makes her own | D |
She's deserving of good company for me I go my lone | D |
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My love she is courteous and handsome and tall | K |
For wit and for behaviour she's foremost of them all | K |
She says she is in no way bound that with me she'll go free | J |
But my love has too many lovers to have any love for me | J |
FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
Who weds him might cry with the wandering plover | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
Where they're breaking the horses go find me my lover | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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SECOND GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
Him with the strong hand I will bring from the clover | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
I wait till I hear what he's singing over | C |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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Another man s voice | L |
Are they not the good men of Eirinn | D |
Who give not their thought nor their voice | L |
To fortune but take without dowry | J |
The maids of their choice | L |
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For the trout has sport in the river | C |
Whether prices be up or low down | D |
And the salmon he slips through the water | C |
Not heeding the town | D |
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Then if she the love of my bosom | M |
Did laugh as she stood by my door | N |
O Fd rise then and draw her in to me | J |
With kisses go leor | N |
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It's not likely the wind in the tree tops | O |
Would trouble our love nor our rest | P |
Not the hurrying footsteps would draw her | N |
My love from my breast | P |
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FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
He sings to the girsha in the hazel wood cover | N |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
Go where they're shearing and find me my lover | N |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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SECOND GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
The newly come youth is looking straight over | N |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
If you mind what he sings you'll have silver trover | N |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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A young man's voice sings | E |
Once I went over the ocean | D |
On a ship that was bound for proud Spain | D |
Some people were singing and dancing | Q |
But I had a heart full of pain | D |
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I'll put now a sail on the lake | R |
That's between my treasure and me | J |
And I'll sail over the lake | R |
Till I come to the Joyce country | J |
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She'll hear my boat on the shingles | S |
And she'll hear my step on the land | T |
And the corncrake deep in the meadow | N |
Will tell her that I'm at hand | T |
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The summer comes to Glen Nefin | D |
With heavy dew on the leas | U |
With the gathering of wild honey | D |
To the tops of all the trees | U |
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In honey and dew the summer | N |
Upon the ground is shed | V |
And the cuckoo cries until dark | W |
Where my storeen has her bed | V |
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And if O'Hanlon's daughter | N |
Will give me a welcome kind | F |
O never will my sail be turned | X |
To a harsh and a heavy wind | F |
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FIRST GIRL | A |
Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
Welcome I'll give him over and over | N |
Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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