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... sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye , A doleful damsel I heard cry : " Och , Johnny , I hardly knew ye ...
... sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye , A doleful damsel I heard cry : " Och , Johnny , I hardly knew ye ...
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... sweet babe born And the green leaves they grow rarely . " Smile na sae sweet , my bonny babe , " Fine flowers in the valley , " And ye smile sae sweet , ye'll smile me dead . " And the green leaves they grow rarely . She's taen out her ...
... sweet babe born And the green leaves they grow rarely . " Smile na sae sweet , my bonny babe , " Fine flowers in the valley , " And ye smile sae sweet , ye'll smile me dead . " And the green leaves they grow rarely . She's taen out her ...
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... Sweet lovers love the spring . Then pretty lovers take the time With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , For love is crowned with the prime In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding a ding : Sweet ...
... Sweet lovers love the spring . Then pretty lovers take the time With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , For love is crowned with the prime In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding a ding : Sweet ...
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Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats