Missis Moriarty's Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BDBDEFEF GHGHIBIB| Missis Moriarty called last week and says she to me says she | A |
| Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now it's the fortunate woman you are | B |
| You've still got your Dinnis to cheer up your home but me Patsy boy where is he | A |
| Lyin' alone cold as a stone kilt in the weariful wahr | B |
| Oh I'm seein' him now as I looked on him last wid his hair all curly and bright | C |
| And the wonderful tenderful heart he had and his eyes as he wint away | D |
| Shinin' and lookin' down on me from the pride of his proper height | C |
| Sure I'll remember me boy like that if I live to me dyin' day | D |
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| And just as she spoke them very same words me Dinnis came in at the door | B |
| Came in from McGonigle's ould shebeen came in from drinkin' his pay | D |
| And Missis Moriarty looked at him and she didn't say anny more | B |
| And she wrapped her head in her ould black shawl and she quietly wint away | D |
| And what was I thinkin' I ask ye now as I put me Dinnis to bed | E |
| Wid him ravin' and cursin' one half of the night as cold by his side I sat | F |
| Was I thinkin' the poor ould woman she was wid her Patsy slaughtered and dead | E |
| Was I weepin' for Missis Moriarty I'm not so sure about that | F |
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| Missis Moriarty goes about wid a shinin' look on her face | G |
| Wid her grey hair under her ould black shawl and the eyes of her mother mild | H |
| Some say she's a little bit off her head but annyway it's the case | G |
| Her timper's so swate that you nivver would tell she'd be losin' her only child | H |
| And I think as I wait up ivery night for me Dinnis to come home blind | I |
| And I'm hearin' his stumblin' foot on the stair along about half past three | B |
| Sure there's many a way of breakin' a heart and I haven't made up me mind | I |
| Would I be Missis Moriarty or Missis Moriarty me | B |
Robert William Service
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