Polonius And The Ballad Singers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKELMNOPQRR QSSQTTUVQWVVWXVQXYDG QZQA2B2C2B2D2B2E2F2G 2F2H2I2G2I2D2I2J2K2G 2QQL2M2QN2JQO2QQQNP2 P2P2QQ2Q2Q2QG2G2G2R2 NS2T2G2P2P2P2QG2M2P2 U2G2K2

A gaunt built woman and her son in lawA
A broad faced fellow with such flesh as showsB
Nothing but easy nature and his wifeC
The woman s daughter who spills all her talkD
Out of a wide mouth but who has eyes as grayE
As Connemara where the mountain ashF
Shows berries red indeed they enter nowG
Our country singersH
Sing my good woman sing us some romanceI
That has been round your chimney nooks so longJ
Tis nearly native something blown hereK
And since made racy like yon tree I might sayE
Native by influence if not by speciesL
Shaped by our winds You understand I thinkM
I ll sing the song sirN
To night you see my faceO
Maybe nevermore you ll gazeP
On the one that for you left his friends and kinQ
For by the hard commandsR
Of the lord that rules these landsR
On a ship I ll be borne from CruckaunfinnQ
Oh you know your beauty brightS
Has made him think delightS
More than from any fair one he will gainQ
Oh you know that all his willT
Strains and strives around you tillT
As the hawk upon his hand you are as tameU
Then she to him repliedV
I ll no longer you denyQ
And I ll let you have the pleasure of my charmsW
For to night I ll be your brideV
And whatever may betideV
It s we will lie in one another s armsW
You should not singX
With body doubled up and face asideV
There is a climax here It s we will lieQ
Hem passionate And what does your daughter singX
A song I like when I do climb bare hillsY
Tis all about a hawkD
No bird that sits on rock or boughG
Has such a front as thineQ
No king that has made war his tradeZ
Such conquest in his eyneQ
I mark thee rock like on the rockA2
Where none can see a shapeB2
I climb but thou dost climb with wingsC2
And like a wish escapeB2
She saidD2
And like a wish escapeB2
No maid that kissed his bonny mouthE2
Of another mouth was gladF2
Such pride was in our chieftain s eyesG2
Such countenance he hadF2
But since they made him fly the rocksH2
Thou creature art my questI2
Then lift me with thy steady eyesG2
If then to tear my breastI2
She saidD2
If then to tear my breastI2
The songs they haveJ2
Are the last relics of the feudal worldK2
Women will keep them byzants doubloonsG2
When men will take up songs that are as newQ
As dollar bills What song have you young manQ
A song my father had sir It was sent himL2
From across the sea and there was a letter with itM2
Asking my father to put it to a tuneQ
And sing it all roads He did that in trothN2
And five pounds of tobacco were sent with the songJ
To fore reward him I ll sing it for you nowQ
The Baltimore ExileO2
The house I was bred in ah does it remainQ
Low walls and loose thatch standing lone in the rainQ
With the clay of the walls coming through with its stainQ
Like the blackbird s left nest in the briarN
Does a child there give heed to the song of the larkP2
As it lifts and it drops till the fall of the darkP2
When the heavy foot kine trudge home from the paurkP2
Or do none but the red shank now listenQ
The sloe bush I know grows close to the wellQ2
And its long lasting blossoms are there I can tellQ2
When the kid that was yeaned when the first ones befellQ2
Can jump to the ditch that they grow onQ
But there s silence on all Then do none ever passG2
On the way to the fair or the pattern or massG2
Do the gray coated lads drive the ball through the grassG2
And speed to the sweep of the hurlR2
O youths of my land Then will no BolivarN
Ever muster your ranks for delivering warS2
Will your hopes become fixed and beam like a starT2
Will they pass like the mists from your fieldsG2
The swan and the swallows the cuckoo and crakeP2
May visit my land and find hillside and lakeP2
And I send my song I ll not see her awakeP2
I m too old a bird to uncage nowQ
Silver s but lead in exchange for songsG2
But take it and spend itM2
We will And may we meet your honor s likeP2
Every day s endU2
A tune is more lasting than the voice of the birdsG2
A song is more lasting than the riches of the worldK2

Padraic Colum



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