Lovely Mary Donnelly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN OOOO PPQQ| Oh lovely Mary Donnelly my joy my only best | A |
| If fifty girls were round you I'd hardly see the rest | A |
| Be what it may the time o' day the place be where it will | B |
| Sweet looks o' Mary Donnelly they bloom before me still | B |
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| Her eyes like mountain water that's flowing on a rock | C |
| How clear they are how dark they are they give me many a shock | C |
| Red rowans warm in sunshine and wetted with a shower | D |
| Could ne'er express the charming lip that has me in its power | D |
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| Her nose is straight and handsome her eyebrows lifted up | E |
| Her chin is very neat and pert and smooth like a china cup | E |
| Her hair's the brag of Ireland so weighty and so fine | F |
| It's rolling down upon her neck and gathered in a twine | F |
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| The dance o' last Whit Monday night exceeded all before | G |
| No pretty girl from miles about was missing from the floor | G |
| But Mary kept the belt of love and O but she was gay | H |
| She danced a jig she sung a song that took my heart away | H |
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| When she stood up for dancing her steps were so complete | I |
| The music nearly killed itself to her feet | I |
| The fiddler mourned his blindness he heard her so much praised | J |
| But blessed his luck not to be deaf when once her voice she raised | J |
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| And evermore I'm whistling or lilting what you sung | K |
| Your smile is always in my heart your name beside my tongue | K |
| But you've as many sweethearts as you'd count on both your hands | L |
| And for myself there's not a thumb or little finger stands | L |
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| Oh you're the flower o' womankind in country or in town | M |
| The higher I exalt you the lower I'm cast down | M |
| If some great lord should come this way and see your beauty bright | N |
| And you to be his lady I'd own it was but right | N |
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| Oh might we live together in a lofty palace hall | O |
| Where joyful music rises and where scarlet curtains fall | O |
| Oh might we live together in a cottage mean and small | O |
| With sods or grass the only roof and mud the only wall | O |
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| O lovely Mary Donnelly your beauty's my distress | P |
| It's far too beauteous to be mine but I'll never wish it less | P |
| The proudest place would fit your face and I am poor and low | Q |
| But blessings be about you dear wherever you may go | Q |
William Allingham
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