The Mermaid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBEED A CFCF GDDHIDHDGBBIJBBBB A FBFBKBBKLBMBBBBBBBBB BNOBB| I | A |
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| Who would be | B |
| A mermaid fair | C |
| Singing alone | D |
| Combing her hair | C |
| Under the sea | B |
| In a golden curl | E |
| With a comb of pearl | E |
| On a throne | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| I would be a mermaid fair | C |
| I would sing to myself the whole of the day | F |
| With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair | C |
| And still as I comb'd I would sing and say | F |
| 'Who is it loves me who loves not me ' | - |
| I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall | G |
| Low adown low adown | D |
| From under my starry sea bud crown | D |
| Low adown and around | H |
| And I should look like a fountain of gold | I |
| Springing alone | D |
| With a shrill inner sound | H |
| Over the throne | D |
| In the midst of the hall | G |
| Till that great sea snake under the sea | B |
| From his coiled sleeps in the central deeps | B |
| Would slowly trail himself sevenfold | I |
| Round the hall where I sate and look in at the gate | J |
| With his large calm eyes for the love of me | B |
| And all the mermen under the sea | B |
| Would feel their immortality | B |
| Die in their hearts for the love of me | B |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| But at night I would wander away away | F |
| I would fling on each side my low flowing locks | B |
| And lightly vault from the throne and play | F |
| With the mermen in and out of the rocks | B |
| We would run to and fro and hide and seek | K |
| On the broad sea wolds in the crimson shells | B |
| Whose silvery spikes are nighest the sea | B |
| But if any came near I would call and shriek | K |
| And adown the steep like a wave I would leap | L |
| From the diamond ledges that jut from the dells | B |
| For I would not be kiss'd by all who would list | M |
| Of the bold merry mermen under the sea | B |
| They would sue me and woo me and flatter me | B |
| In the purple twilights under the sea | B |
| But the king of them all would carry me | B |
| Woo me and win me and marry me | B |
| In the branching jaspers under the sea | B |
| Then all the dry pied things that be | B |
| In the hueless mosses under the sea | B |
| Would curl round my silver feet silently | B |
| All looking up for the love of me | B |
| And if I should carol aloud from aloft | N |
| All things that are forked and horned and soft | O |
| Would lean out from the hollow sphere of the sea | B |
| All looking down for the love of me | B |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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