Are Ye Right, There, Michael? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAACDCDD EEDDFE ADADGHGH DAA EEIIFE FJFJIKIK DIL EEIIFE| You may talk of Columbus's sailing | A |
| Across the Atlantical Sea | B |
| But he never tried to go railing | A |
| From Ennis as far as Kilkee | A |
| You run for the train in the morning | A |
| The excursion train starting at eight | C |
| You're there when the clock gives the warnin' | D |
| And there for an hour you'll wait | C |
| And as you're waiting in the train | D |
| You'll hear the guard sing this refrain | D |
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| Are ye right there Michael are ye right | E |
| Do you think that we'll be there before the night | E |
| Ye've been so long in startin' | D |
| That ye couldn't say for startin' | D |
| Still ye might now Michael | F |
| So ye might | E |
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| They find out where the engine's been hiding | A |
| And it drags you to Sweet Corofin | D |
| Says the guard Back her down on the siding | A |
| There's the goods from Kilrush comin' in | D |
| Perhaps it comes in two hours | G |
| Perhaps it breaks down on the way | H |
| If it does says the guard be the powers | G |
| We're here for the rest of the day | H |
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| Spoken | D |
| And while you sit and curse your luck | A |
| The train backs down into a truck | A |
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| Are ye right there Michael are ye right | E |
| Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White | E |
| Ye haven't oh begorra | I |
| Say it's comin' down tomorra | I |
| And well it might now Michael | F |
| So it might | E |
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| At Lahinch the sea shines like a jewel | F |
| With joy you are ready to shout | J |
| When the stoker cries out There's no fuel | F |
| And the fire's taytotally out | J |
| But hand up that bit of log there | I |
| I'll soon have ye out of the fix | K |
| There's fine clamp of turf in the bog there | I |
| And the rest go a gatherin' sticks | K |
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| Spoken | D |
| And while you're breakin' bits of tree | I |
| You hear some wise remarks like these | L |
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| Are ye right there Michael Are ye right | E |
| Do ye think that you can get the fire to light | E |
| Oh an hour you'll require | I |
| For the turf it might be drier | I |
| Well it might now Michael | F |
| So it might | E |
William Percy French
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