Kenmare River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBABAACACCCCCCDC DEFEGAGAEACACBHBHCBC BB'Tis pretty to be in Ballinderry | A |
'Tis pretty to be in Ballindoon | B |
But 'tis prettier far in County Kerry | A |
Coortin' under the bran' new moon | B |
Aroon Aroon | B |
'Twas there by the bosom of blue Killarney | B |
They came by the hundther' a coortin' me | A |
Sure I was the one to give back their blarney | B |
An' merry was I to be fancy free | A |
But niver a step in the lot was lighter | A |
An' divvle a boulder among the bhoys | C |
Than Phelim O'Shea me dynamither | A |
Me illigant arthist in clock work toys | C |
'Twas all for love he would bring his figgers | C |
Of iminent statesmen in toy machines | C |
An' hould me hand as he pulled the thriggers | C |
An' scattered the thraytors to smithereens | C |
An' to see the Queen in her Crystial Pallus | C |
Fly up to the roof an' the windeys broke | D |
And all with divvle a trace of malus | C |
But he was the bhoy that enjoyed his joke | D |
Then O but his cheek would flush an' 'Bridget ' | E |
He 'd say 'Will yez love me ' But I 'd be coy | F |
And answer him 'Arrah now dear don't fidget ' | E |
Though at heart I loved him me arthist bhoy | G |
One night we stood by the Kenmare river | A |
An' 'Bridget creina now whist ' said he | G |
'I'll be goin' to night an' may be for iver | A |
Open your arms at the last to me ' | E |
'Twas there by the banks of the Kenmare river | A |
He took in his hands me white white face | C |
An' we kissed our first an' our last for iver | A |
For Phelim O'Shea is disparsed in space | C |
'Twas pretty to be by blue Killarney | B |
'Twas pretty to hear the linnets's call | H |
But whist for I cannot attind their blarney | B |
Nor whistle in answer at all at all | H |
For the voice that he swore 'ud out call the linnet's | C |
Is cracked intoirely and out of chune | B |
Since the clock work missed it by thirteen minutes | C |
An' scattered me Phelim around the moon | B |
Aroon Aroon | B |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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