The Coolun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGEGHACA DIJIIEEE IIKIAILI EEMEJAKA EANADIOI| Ah had you seen the Coolun | A |
| Walking down by the cuckoo's street | B |
| With the dew of the meadow shining | C |
| On her milk white twinkling feet | B |
| My love she is and my colleen oacute g | D |
| And she dwells in Bal'nagar | E |
| And she bears the palm of beauty bright | F |
| From the fairest that in Erin are | E |
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| In Bal'nagar is the Coolun | A |
| Like the berry on the bough her cheek | G |
| Bright beauty dwells forever | E |
| On her fair neck and ringlets sleek | G |
| Oh sweeter is her mouth's soft music | H |
| Than the lark or thrush at dawn | A |
| Or the blackbird in the greenwood singing | C |
| Farewell to the setting sun | A |
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| Rise up my boy make ready | D |
| My horse for I forth would ride | I |
| To follow the modest damsel | J |
| Where she walks on the green hill side | I |
| For ever since youth were we plighted | I |
| In faith troth and wedlock true | E |
| Oh she's sweet ecirc r to me nine times over | E |
| Than organ or cuckoo | E |
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| For ever since my childhood | I |
| I loved the fair and darling child | I |
| But our people came between us | K |
| And with lucre our pure love defiled | I |
| Oh my woe it is and my bitter pain | A |
| And I weep it night and day | I |
| That the colleen b aacute n of my early love | L |
| Is torn from my heart away | I |
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| Sweetheart and faithful treasure | E |
| Be constant still and true | E |
| Nor for want of herds and houses | M |
| Leave one who would ne'er leave you | E |
| I'll pledge you the blessed Bible | J |
| Without and eke within | A |
| That the faithful God will provide for us | K |
| Without thanks to kith or kin | A |
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| Oh love do you remember | E |
| When we lay all night alone | A |
| Beneath the ash in the winter storm | N |
| When the oak wood round did groan | A |
| No shelter then from the storm had we | D |
| The bitter blast or sleet | I |
| But your gown to wrap about our heads | O |
| And my coat round our feet | I |
Sir Samuel Ferguson
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