The Girl's Lamentation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD E FF GGHH IIJJ DDKK LLMN OOPP QQJJ RRSS CCBB TTUU VVWW UXYY ZZA2A2 B2B2DD C2C2D2D2 E2E2F2F2| With grief and mourning I sit to spin | A |
| My Love passed by and he didn't come in | A |
| He passes by me both day and night | B |
| And carries off my poor heart's delight | B |
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| There is a tavern in yonder town | C |
| My Love goes there and he spends a crown | C |
| He takes a strange girl upon his knee | D |
| And never more gives a thought to me | D |
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| Says he 'We'll wed without loss of time | E |
| And sure our love's but a little crime ' | - |
| My apron string now it's wearing short | F |
| And my Love he seeks other girls to court | F |
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| O with him I'd go if I had my will | G |
| I'd follow him barefoot o'er rock and hill | G |
| I'd never once speak of all my grief | H |
| If he'd give me a smile for my heart's relief | H |
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| In our wee garden the rose unfolds | I |
| With bachelor's buttons and marigolds | I |
| I'll tie no posies for dance or fair | J |
| A willow twig is for me to wear | J |
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| For a maid again I can never be | D |
| Till the red rose blooms on the willow tree | D |
| Of such a trouble I've heard them tell | K |
| And now I know what it means full well | K |
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| As through the long lonesome night I lie | L |
| I'd give the world if I might but cry | L |
| But I mus'n't moan there or raise my voice | M |
| And the tears run down without any noise | N |
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| And what O what will my mother say | O |
| She'll wish her daughter was in the clay | O |
| My father will curse me to my face | P |
| The neighbours will know of my black disgrace | P |
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| My sister's buried three years come Lent | Q |
| But sure we made far too much lament | Q |
| Beside her grave they still say a prayer | J |
| I wish to God 'twas myself was there | J |
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| The Candlemas crosses hang near my bed | R |
| To look at them puts me much in dread | R |
| They mark the good time that's gone and past | S |
| It's like this year's one will prove the last | S |
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| The oldest cross it's a dusty brown | C |
| But the winter winds didn't shake it down | C |
| The newest cross keeps the colour bright | B |
| When the straw was reaping my heart was light | B |
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| The reapers rose with the blink of morn | T |
| And gaily stook'd up the yellow corn | T |
| To call them home to the field I'd run | U |
| Through the blowing breeze and the summer sun | U |
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| When the straw was weaving my heart was glad | V |
| For neither sin nor shame I had | V |
| In the barn where oat chaff was flying round | W |
| And the thumping flails made a pleasant sound | W |
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| Now summer or winter to me it's one | U |
| But oh for a day like the time that's gone | X |
| I'd little care was it storm or shine | Y |
| If I had but peace in this heart of mine | Y |
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| Oh light and false is a young man's kiss | Z |
| And a foolish girl gives her soul for this | Z |
| Oh light and short is the young man's blame | A2 |
| And a helpless girl has the grief and shame | A2 |
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| To the river bank once I thought to go | B2 |
| And cast myself in the stream below | B2 |
| I thought 'twould carry us far out to sea | D |
| Where they'd never find my poor babe and me | D |
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| Sweet Lord forgive me that wicked mind | C2 |
| You know I used to be well inclined | C2 |
| Oh take compassion upon my state | D2 |
| Because my trouble is so very great | D2 |
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| My head turns round with the spinning wheel | E2 |
| And a heavy cloud on my eyes I feel | E2 |
| But the worst of all is at my heart's core | F2 |
| For my innocent days will come back no more | F2 |
William Allingham
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