Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFCC GHAAII JJKKLL CCMMNN OOPPQQ RRLLSS CCTTUU EEVVWW XXTTUU YYMMZZ A2A2QQAA FFB2B2WW C2C2EDXX WWAAD2D2 E2E2XXF2R D2D2| Dear Virgin Mary far away | A |
| Look down from Heaven while I pray | A |
| Open your golden casement high | B |
| And lean way out beyond the sky | B |
| I am so little it may be | C |
| A task for you to harken me | C |
| - | |
| O Lady Mary I have bought | D |
| A candle as the good priest taught | E |
| I only had one penny so | F |
| Old Goody Jenkins let it go | F |
| It is a little bent you see | C |
| But Oh be merciful to me | C |
| - | |
| I have not anything to give | G |
| Yet I so long for him to live | H |
| A year ago he sailed away | A |
| And not a word unto today | A |
| I've strained my eyes from the sea wall | I |
| But never does he come at all | I |
| - | |
| Other ships have entered port | J |
| Their voyages finished long or short | J |
| And other sailors have received | K |
| Their welcomes while I sat and grieved | K |
| My heart is bursting for his hail | L |
| O Virgin let me spy his sail | L |
| - | |
| Hull down on the edge of a sun soaked sea | C |
| Sparkle the bellying sails for me | C |
| Taut to the push of a rousing wind | M |
| Shaking the sea till it foams behind | M |
| The tightened rigging is shrill with the song | N |
| We are back again who were gone so long | N |
| - | |
| One afternoon I bumped my head | O |
| I sat on a post and wished I were dead | O |
| Like father and mother for no one cared | P |
| Whither I went or how I fared | P |
| A man's voice said My little lad | Q |
| Here's a bit of a toy to make you glad | Q |
| - | |
| Then I opened my eyes and saw him plain | R |
| With his sleeves rolled up and the dark blue stain | R |
| Of tattooed skin where a flock of quail | L |
| Flew up to his shoulder and met the tail | L |
| Of a dragon curled all pink and green | S |
| Which sprawled on his back when it was seen | S |
| - | |
| He held out his hand and gave to me | C |
| The most marvellous top which could ever be | C |
| It had ivory eyes and jet black rings | T |
| And a red stone carved into little wings | T |
| All joined by a twisted golden line | U |
| And set in the brown wood even and fine | U |
| - | |
| Forgive me Lady I have not brought | E |
| My treasure to you as I ought | E |
| But he said to keep it for his sake | V |
| And comfort myself with it and take | V |
| Joy in its spinning and so I do | W |
| It couldn't mean quite the same to you | W |
| - | |
| Every day I met him there | X |
| Where the fisher nets dry in the sunny air | X |
| He told me stories of courts and kings | T |
| Of storms at sea of lots of things | T |
| The top he said was a sort of sign | U |
| That something in the big world was mine | U |
| - | |
| Blue and white on a sun shot ocean | Y |
| Against the horizon a glint in motion | Y |
| Full in the grasp of a shoving wind | M |
| Trailing her bubbles of foam behind | M |
| Singing and shouting to port she races | Z |
| A flying harp with her sheets and braces | Z |
| - | |
| O Queen of Heaven give me heed | A2 |
| I am in very utmost need | A2 |
| He loved me he was all I had | Q |
| And when he came it made the sad | Q |
| Thoughts disappear This very day | A |
| Send his ship home to me I pray | A |
| - | |
| I'll be a priest if you want it so | F |
| I'll work till I have enough to go | F |
| And study Latin to say the prayers | B2 |
| On the rosary our old priest wears | B2 |
| I wished to be a sailor too | W |
| But I will give myself to you | W |
| - | |
| I'll never even spin my top | C2 |
| But put it away in a box I'll stop | C2 |
| Whistling the sailor songs he taught | E |
| I'll save my pennies till I have bought | D |
| A silver heart in the market square | X |
| I've seen some beautiful white ones there | X |
| - | |
| I'll give up all I want to do | W |
| And do whatever you tell me to | W |
| Heavenly Lady take away | A |
| All the games I like to play | A |
| Take my life to fill the score | D2 |
| Only bring him back once more | D2 |
| - | |
| The poplars shiver and turn their leaves | E2 |
| And the wind through the belfry moans and grieves | E2 |
| The gray dust whirls in the market square | X |
| And the silver hearts are covered with care | X |
| By thick tarpaulins Once again | F2 |
| The bay is black under heavy rain | R |
| - | |
| The Queen of Heaven has shut her door | D2 |
| A little boy weeps and prays no more | D2 |
Amy Lowell
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