The Tin-whistle Player Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDBD BEFG BHIH EJKJLJ| 'Tis long since long since since I heard | A |
| A tin whistle played | B |
| And heard the tunes the ha'penny tunes | C |
| That nobody made | B |
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| The tunes that were before Cendfind | B |
| And Cir went Ireland's rounds | D |
| That were before the surety | B |
| That strings have given sounds | D |
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| And now is standing in the mist | B |
| And jigging backward there | E |
| Shrilling with fingers and with breath | F |
| A tin whistle player | G |
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| He has hare's eyes a long face rimmed | B |
| Around with badger grey | H |
| Aimless like cries of mountain birds | I |
| The tunes he has to play | H |
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| The tunes that are for stretches bare | E |
| And men whose lives are lone | J |
| And I had seen that face of his | K |
| Sculptured on cross of stone | J |
| That long face in a place of graves | L |
| With nettles overgrown | J |
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