The Boatman Of Kinsale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHJKDKD LMLMBDBD| His kiss is sweet his word is kind | A |
| His love is rich to me | B |
| I could not in a palace find | A |
| A truer heart than he | B |
| The eagle shelters not his nest | C |
| From hurricane and hail | D |
| More bravely than he guards my breast | C |
| The Boatman of Kinsale | D |
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| The wind that round the Fastnet sweeps | E |
| Is not a whit more pure | F |
| The goat that down Cnoc Sheehy leaps | E |
| Has not a foot more sure | F |
| No firmer hand nor freer eye | G |
| E'er faced an autumn gale | D |
| De Courcy's heart is not so high | G |
| The Boatman of Kinsale | D |
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| The brawling squires may heed him not | H |
| The dainty stranger sneer | I |
| But who will dare to hurt our cot | H |
| When Myles O'Hea is here | J |
| The scarlet soldiers pass along | K |
| They'd like but fear to rail | D |
| His blood is hot his blow is strong | K |
| The Boatman of Kinsale | D |
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| His hooker's in the Scilly van | L |
| When seines are in the foam | M |
| But money never made the man | L |
| Nor wealth a happy home | M |
| So bless'd with love and liberty | B |
| While he can trim a sail | D |
| He 'll trust in God and cling to me | B |
| The Boatman of Kinsale | D |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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