Oh! The Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEF GHGHICICF JKJKLMLMF N OPOPQCQCBCBC| Air The Swaggering Jig | A |
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| I | - |
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| Oh the marriage the marriage | B |
| With love and mo bhuachaill for me | C |
| The ladies that ride in a carriage | B |
| Might envy my marriage to me | C |
| For Eoghan is straight as a tower | D |
| And tender and loving and true | E |
| He told me more love in an hour | D |
| Than the Squires of the county could do | E |
| Then Oh the marriage etc | F |
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| His hair is a shower of soft gold | G |
| His eye is as clear as the day | H |
| His conscience and vote were unsold | G |
| When others were carried away | H |
| His word is as good as an oath | I |
| And freely 'twas given to me | C |
| Oh sure 'twill be happy for both | I |
| The day of our marriage to see | C |
| Then Oh the marriage etc | F |
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| III | - |
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| His kinsmen are honest and kind | J |
| The neighbours think much of his skill | K |
| And Eoghan's the lad to my mind | J |
| Though he owns neither castle nor mill | K |
| But he has a tilloch of land | L |
| A horse and a stocking of coin | M |
| A foot for a dance and a hand | L |
| In the cause of his country to join | M |
| Then Oh the marriage etc | F |
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| IV | N |
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| We meet in the market and fair | O |
| We meet in the morning and night | P |
| He sits on the half of my chair | O |
| And my people are wild with delight | P |
| Yet I long through the winter to skim | Q |
| Though Eoghan longs more I can see | C |
| When I will be married to him | Q |
| And he will be married to me | C |
| Then Oh the marriage the marriage | B |
| With love and mo bhuachaill for me | C |
| The ladies that ride in a carriage | B |
| Might envy my marriage to me | C |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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