The Coolun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGEGHACA DIJIIEEE IIKIAILI EEMEJAKA EANADIOIAh 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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