Spinning Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHIJB KLMNOPQR S TUVCWVXY Z A2GB2C2D2B2E2F2 G2 OH2I2J2I2EK2L2EM2Z D AN2OO2P2 I2GG GK2I2 I2LO AN2Q2DQ2DDDD R2DS2I2T2I2U2 DDDV2U2 DDA MOUNTAIN SPINNING SONG | A |
A Young Girl sings it | B |
THE Lannan Shee | C |
Watched the young man Brian | D |
Cross over the stile towards his father's door | E |
And she said 'No help | F |
For now he'll see | G |
His byre his bawn and his threshing floor | E |
And oh the swallows | H |
Forget all wonders | I |
When walls with the nests rise up once more ' | J |
My strand is knit | B |
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'Out of the dream | K |
Of me into | L |
The round of his labour he will grow | M |
To spread his fields | N |
In the winds of spring | O |
And tramp the heavy glebe and sow | P |
And cut and clamp | Q |
And rear the turf | R |
Until the season when they mow ' | - |
My wheel runs smooth | S |
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'And while he toils | T |
In field and bog | U |
He will be anxious in his mind | V |
About the thatch | C |
Of barn and rick | W |
Against the reiving autumn wind | V |
And how to make | X |
His gap and gate | Y |
Secure against the thieving kind ' | - |
My wool is fine | Z |
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'He has gone back | A2 |
No more I'll see | G |
Mine image in his deepening eyes | B2 |
Then I'll lean above | C2 |
The Well of the Bride | D2 |
And with my beauty peace will rise | B2 |
O autumn star | E2 |
In a lake well hid | F2 |
Fill up my heart and make me wise ' | - |
My quick brown wheel | G2 |
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'The women bring | O |
Their pitchers here | H2 |
At the time when the stir of the house is o'er | I2 |
They'll see my face | J2 |
In the well water | I2 |
And they'll never lift their pitchers more | E |
For each will say | K2 |
'How beautiful | L2 |
Why should I labour any more | E |
Indeed I come | M2 |
Of a race so fine | Z |
'Twere waste to labour any more '' | - |
My thread is spun | D |
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AN ISLAND SPINNING SONG | A |
An Older Girl sings if | N2 |
One came before her and said beseeching | O |
'I have fortune and I have lands | O2 |
And if you'll share in the goods of my household | P2 |
All my treasure's at your commands ' | - |
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But she said to him 'The goods you proffer | I2 |
Are far from my mind as the silk of the sea | G |
The arms of him my young love round me | G |
Is all the treasure that's true for me ' | - |
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'Proud you are then proud of your beauty | G |
But beauty's a flower will soon decay | K2 |
The fairest flowers they bloom in the summer | I2 |
They bloom one summer and they fade away ' | - |
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'My heart is sad then for the little flower | I2 |
That must so wither where fair it grew | L |
He who has my heart in keeping | O |
I would he had my body too ' | - |
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A MIDLAND SPINNING SONG | A |
An Old Woman sings if | N2 |
There was an oul' trooper went riding by | Q2 |
On the road to Carricknabauna | D |
And sorrow is better to sing than cry | Q2 |
On the way to Carricknabauna | D |
And as this oul' trooper went riding on | D |
He heard this sung by a crone a crone | D |
On the road to Carricknabauna | D |
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'I'd spread my cloak for you young lad | R2 |
Were it only the breadth of a farthen | D |
And if your mind was as good as your word | S2 |
In troth it's you I'd rather | I2 |
In dread of ere forgetting this | T2 |
And before we go any farther | I2 |
Hoist me up to the top of the hill | U2 |
And show me Carricknabauna ' | - |
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'Carricknabauna Carricknabauna | D |
Would you show me Carricknabauna | D |
I lost a horse at Cruckmaelinn | D |
At the Cross of Bunratty I dropped a limb | V2 |
But I left my youth on the crown of the hill | U2 |
Over by Carricknabauna ' | - |
Girls young girls the rush light is done | D |
What will I do till my thread is spun | D |
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