Tim O'gallagher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEECC CCCCFF GGCCDDCCCCAAHI IIJJEEKLDDDDCCCC CCDDCCMN CCEEDDDDOO CCPPQDQQ LLCCLL| My name is Tim O'Gallagher there's Oirish in that same | A |
| My parients from the Imerald Oisle beyant the ocean came | A |
| My father came from Donegal my mother came from Clare | B |
| But oi was born in Pontiac besoide the Belle Rivi re | C |
| Oi spint my choildhood tamin' bears and fellin' timber trays | D |
| And catchin' salmon tin fate long and doin' what oi plaze | D |
| Oi got my iddication from the Riverind Father Blake | E |
| He taught me Latin grammar and he after taught me Grake | E |
| Till oi could rade the classics in a distint sort of way | C |
| 'Twas the sadetoime of the harvist that oi'm rapin' ivery day | C |
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| My parients thought me monsthrous shmart of thim 'twas awful koind | C |
| And where oi'd go to college now was what perplixed their moind | C |
| So they axed the Riverind Father Blake what varsity was bist | C |
| To make a docthor bachelor and lawyer and the rist | C |
| Said Father Blake If oi must make decision faith oi will | F |
| Sure sind the boy to Munthreal there's none loike Ould McGill | F |
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| So oi came to Munthreal and found McGill one afternoon | G |
| And saw a great excoited crowd all shoutin' out of tune | G |
| And in the cintre thorty min was foightin' jist loike mad | C |
| And two big fellows on the top of one poor little lad | C |
| Oi turned indignant to the crowd and tould them to their face | D |
| Ye pack of coward savages onciviloized and base | D |
| To stand and see two stalwart min abusin' one that way | C |
| Oi loike a gladiatorial show but loike to see fair play | C |
| So oi jumped at those two bullies and oi caught thim by the shirt | C |
| And oi knocked their hids together and consoigned thim to the dirt | C |
| Oi was removed and they were carried home but all the same | A |
| Though Ould McGill was two min short she won that football game | A |
| They thought oi was a tough gussoon and whin they played agin | H |
| They put me in the scrimmage we got thorty foive to tin | I |
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| Oi thin wint up to college whin the lictures would begin | I |
| Oi attinded ivery licture when oi happened to be in | I |
| Got my work up kipt my note books in the illigantist shape | J |
| Oi took notes of ivery licture barrin' whin oi was ashlape | J |
| But och oi try to do my bist for sure it's Father Blake | E |
| As says the foinist faculty is Arts and no mistake | E |
| For there they tache philosophy and English literature | K |
| The mathematics also and the classic authors sure | L |
| Oi larned the Gracian poethry oi larned the Latin prose | D |
| Oi know as much about thim both as my profissor knows | D |
| How Troy that had for noine long years defoied the Graycian force | D |
| Was hors de combat put at last by jist a wooden horse | D |
| How Xerxes wipt because his army soon would pass away | C |
| And Alexander wipt because there were no more to shlay | C |
| How Cato from his toga plucked the Carthaginian fruit | C |
| How Brutus murdered Saysar and how Saysar called him Brute | C |
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| Oi'd the honor of a mornin' with an influential Med | C |
| And he took me to the room in which they mutilate the dead | C |
| Oi don't objict to crack a skull or spoil a purty face | D |
| But to hack a man who's dead is what oi called extramely base | D |
| But all pursonal convictions he explained should be resoigned | C |
| For the binifit of scoience and the good of humankoind | C |
| And though oi don't at all admoire their ways o' goin' on | M |
| Oi'll take a course in Medicine oi will before oi'm gone | N |
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| Oi saw the Scoience workshops too and thought whin oi was made | C |
| These little hands were niver mint to larn the blacksmith trade | C |
| And for that illictricity the thing what gives the shock | E |
| They collared old Promaytheus and chained him to a rock | E |
| For a playin' with the loightnin' and a raychin to the skoies | D |
| And the vultures gnawed his vittles and the crows picked out his oyes | D |
| But toimes has changed and larnin' gives us power don't you see | D |
| And whin oi'm done with Arts oi'll take that shplindid faculty | D |
| For sure it's from their workshops that the solar system's run | O |
| Besoides they make the wither too and rigilate the sun | O |
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| Oi troied exams at Christmas and oi didn't pass at all | C |
| But oi can have another whack at thim nixt spring and fall | C |
| In toime oi'll pass in iverything and masther all they taiche | P |
| Oi'll go through ivery faculty and come out hid in aiche | P |
| And whin oi've conquered all loike Alexander oi will soigh | Q |
| There is no more to conquer and oi'll lay me down and doie | D |
| They'll birry me with honors and erict in my behalf | Q |
| A monimint which shall disphlay the followin' epitaph | Q |
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| Here loies shwate Tim O'Gallagher sure he had wits to shpare | L |
| His father came from Donegal his mother came from Clare | L |
| He was a shplindid scholar for he studied at McGill | C |
| He drank the well of larnin' dhroy and faith he got his fill | C |
| Was niver mortal craythur larned to such a great degree | L |
| B A M A M D C M B SC LL D | L |
W. M. Mackeracher
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