The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82188   Message #1507768
Posted By: GUEST
23-Jun-05 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cease, my son, your grassy chewing
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cease my son, your grassy chewing
This reads to me like an exercise in metrical composition with the unusual stress pattern, complex rhyme scheme and the extensive use of alliteration. It may be intended to illustrate some type of Irish poetic or even bardic composition, but there is nothing otherwise to suggest an Irish origin. It doesn't feel much like a song, though it could be sung I suppose to Praise my soul the King of Heaven.