The Merman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDBCD A CEFEGFGBBBEAB A HHIHBABBJBKKKBBBKKBB| I | A |
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| Who would be | B |
| A merman bold | C |
| Sitting alone | D |
| Singing alone | D |
| Under the sea | B |
| With a crown of gold | C |
| On a throne | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| I would be a merman bold | C |
| I would sit and sing the whole of the day | E |
| I would fill the sea halls with a voice of power | F |
| But at night I would roam abroad and play | E |
| With the mermaids in and out of the rocks | G |
| Dressing their hair with the white sea flower | F |
| And holding them back by their flowing locks | G |
| I would kiss them often under the sea | B |
| And kiss them again till they kiss'd me | B |
| Laughingly laughingly | B |
| And then we would wander away away | E |
| To the pale green sea groves straight and high | A |
| Chasing each other merrily | B |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| There would be neither moon nor star | H |
| But the wave would make music above us afar | H |
| Low thunder and light in the magic night | I |
| Neither moon nor star | H |
| We would call aloud in the dreamy dells | B |
| Call to each other and whoop and cry | A |
| All night merrily merrily | B |
| They would pelt me with starry spangles and shells | B |
| Laughing and clapping their hands between | J |
| All night merrily merrily | B |
| But I would throw to them back in mine | K |
| Turkis and agate and almondine | K |
| Then leaping out upon them unseen | K |
| I would kiss them often under the sea | B |
| And kiss them again till they kiss'd me | B |
| Laughingly laughingly | B |
| O what a happy life where mine | K |
| Under the hollow hung ocean green | K |
| Soft are the moss beds under the sea | B |
| We would live merrily merrily | B |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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