The Girl Of Dunbwy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD A EEFF A GGHH G IIJJ G AAKK A LLDD| I | A |
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| 'Tis pretty to see the girl of Dunbwy | B |
| Stepping the mountain statelily | C |
| Though ragged her gown and naked her feet | D |
| No lady in Ireland to match her is meet | D |
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| II | A |
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| Poor is her diet and hardly she lies | E |
| Yet a monarch might kneel for a glance of her eyes | E |
| The child of a peasant yet England's proud Queen | F |
| Has less rank in her heart and less grace in her mien | F |
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| III | A |
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| Her brow 'neath her raven hair gleams just as if | G |
| A breaker spread white 'neath a shadowy cliff | G |
| And love and devotion and energy speak | H |
| From her beauty proud eye and her passion pale cheek | H |
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| IV | G |
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| But pale as her cheek is there's fruit on her lip | I |
| And her teeth flash as white as the crescent moon's tip | I |
| And her form and her step like the red deer's go past | J |
| As lightsome as lovely as haughty as fast | J |
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| V | G |
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| I saw her but once and I looked in her eye | A |
| And she knew that I worshipped in passing her by | A |
| The saint of the wayside she granted my prayer | K |
| Though we spoke not a word for her mother was there | K |
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| VI | A |
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| I never can think upon Bantry's bright hills | L |
| But her image starts up and my longing eye fills | L |
| And I whisper her softly Again love we'll meet | D |
| And I'll lie in your bosom and live at your feet | D |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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