Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFGFGD EHIJIDE ABAFABKBKBLFL| I | A |
| My Paistin Finn is my sole desire | B |
| And I am shrunken to skin and bone | C |
| For all my heart has had for its hire | B |
| Is what I can whistle alone and alone | C |
| Oro oro | D |
| Tomorrow night I will break down the door | E |
| What is the good of a man and he | F |
| Alone and alone with a speckled shin | G |
| I would that I drank with my love on my knee | F |
| Between two barrels at the inn | G |
| Oro oro | D |
| - | |
| To morrow night I will break down the door | E |
| Alone and alone nine nights I lay | H |
| Between two bushes under the rain | I |
| I thought to have whistled her down that | J |
| I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain | I |
| Oro oro | D |
| To morrow night I will break down the door | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| I would that I were an old beggar | B |
| Rolling a blind pearl eye | A |
| For he cannot see my lady | F |
| Go gallivanting by | A |
| A dreary dreepy beggar | B |
| Without a friend on the earth | K |
| But a thieving rascally cur | B |
| O a beggar blind from his birth | K |
| Or anything else but a rhymer | B |
| Without a thing in his head | L |
| But rhymes for a beautiful lady | F |
| He rhyming alone in his bed | L |
William Butler Yeats
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