The Lepracaun Or Fairy Shoemaker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFEGHFIJFFJKL GGKL KMNNMOPKPMEQ RSRSKKTKTK URURRDDEDERVW KCCKKVRRKV| Little Cowboy what have you heard | A |
| Up on the lonely rath's green mound | B |
| Only the plaintive yellow bird | A |
| Sighing in sultry fields around | B |
| Chary chary chary chee ee | C |
| Only the grasshopper and the bee | C |
| 'Tip tap rip rap | D |
| Tick a tack too | E |
| Scarlet leather sewn together | F |
| This will make a shoe | E |
| Left right pull it tight | G |
| Summer days are warm | H |
| Underground in winter | F |
| Laughing at the storm ' | I |
| Lay your ear close to the hill | J |
| Do you not catch th etiny clamour | F |
| Busy click of an elfin hammer | F |
| Voice of the Lepracaun singing shrill | J |
| As he merrily plies his trade | K |
| He's a span | L |
| And a quarter in height | G |
| Get him in sight hold him tight | G |
| And you're a made | K |
| Man | L |
| - | |
| You watch your cattle the summerday | K |
| Sup on potatoes sleep in the hay | M |
| how would you like to roll in your carriage | N |
| Look for a duchess's daughter in marriage | N |
| Seize the shoemaker then you may | M |
| 'Big boots a hunting | O |
| Sandals in the hall | P |
| White for a wedding feast | K |
| Pink for a ball | P |
| This way that way | M |
| So we makea shoe | E |
| Getting rich every stitch | Q |
| Tick a tack too ' | - |
| Nine and ninety treasure crocks | R |
| This keen miser fairy hath | S |
| Hid in the mountains woods and rocks | R |
| Ruin and round tow'r cave and rath | S |
| And where cormorants build | K |
| From times of old | K |
| Guarded by him | T |
| Each of them fill'd | K |
| Full to the brim | T |
| With gold | K |
| - | |
| I caught him at work one day myself | U |
| In the castle ditch where fox glove grows | R |
| A wrinkled wizen'd and bearded Elf | U |
| Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose | R |
| Silver buckles to his hose | R |
| Leather apron shoe in his lap | D |
| 'Rip rap tip tap | D |
| Tick tack too | E |
| A grasshopper on my cap | D |
| Away the moth flew | E |
| Buskins for a fairy prince | R |
| Brogues for his son | V |
| Pay me well pay me well | W |
| When the job is done ' | - |
| The rogue was mine beyond a doubt | K |
| I stared at him he stared at me | C |
| 'Servant Sir ' 'Humph' says he | C |
| And pull'd a snuff box out | K |
| He took a long pinch look'd better pleased | K |
| The queer little Lepracaun | V |
| Offer'd the box with a whimsical grace | R |
| Pouf He flung the dust in my face | R |
| And while I sneezed | K |
| Was gone | V |
William Allingham
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