John-john Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACAD EFEFEGEGAD EHEHIJIJAD IKIKIIIIAD LMLMNIAIAD OIOIPQPQA DI dreamt last night of you John John | A |
And thought you called to me | B |
And when I woke this morning John | A |
Yourself I hoped to see | B |
But I was all alone John John | A |
Though still I heard your call | C |
I put my boots and bonnet on | A |
And took my Sunday shawl | C |
And went full sure to find you John | A |
At Nenagh fair | D |
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The fair was just the same as then | E |
Five years ago to day | F |
When first you left the thimble men | E |
And came with me away | F |
For there again were thimble men | E |
And shooting galleries | G |
And card trick men and maggie men | E |
Of all sorts and degrees | G |
But not a sight of you John John | A |
Was anywhere | D |
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I turned my face to home again | E |
And called myself a fool | H |
To think you'd leave the thimble men | E |
And live again by rule | H |
To go to mass and keep the fast | I |
And till the little patch | J |
My wish to have you home was past | I |
Before I raised the latch | J |
And pushed the door and saw you John | A |
Sitting down there | D |
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How cool you came in here begad | I |
As if you owned the place | K |
But rest yourself there now my lad | I |
'Tis good to see your face | K |
My dream is out and now by it | I |
I think I know my mind | I |
At six o'clock this house you'll quit | I |
And leave no grief behind | I |
But until six o'clock John John | A |
My bit you'll share | D |
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The neighbours' shame of me began | L |
When first I brought you in | M |
To wed and keep a tinker man | L |
They thought a kind of sin | M |
But now this three years since you've gone | N |
'Tis pity me they do | I |
And that I'd rather have John John | A |
Than that they'd pity you | I |
Pity for me and you John John | A |
I could not bear | D |
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Oh you're my husband right enough | O |
But what's the good of that | I |
You know you never were the stuff | O |
To be the cottage cat | I |
To watch the fire and hear me lock | P |
The door and put out Shep | Q |
But there now it is six o'clock | P |
And time for you to step | Q |
God bless and keep you far John John | A |
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And that's my prayer | D |
Thomas Macdonagh
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