Sir Patrick Spens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFDF DGAG HIHI JFJF KFLF MFHF NFHM OHHF MFMP NFMF QNLF NFDF RFMF SFTN DMMM MMMM UNTN VNMN VNMN ANMN MFNF MWAW MMAM MWAW NXAMBorder Minstrelsy | A |
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The king sits in Dunfermline town | B |
Drinking the blude red wine o | C |
O whare will I get a skeely skipper | D |
To sail this new ship of mine o | C |
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O up and spake an eldern knight | E |
Sat at the king's right knee | F |
Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor | D |
That ever saild the sea | F |
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Our king has written a braid letter | D |
And seald it with his hand | G |
And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens | A |
Was walking on the strand | G |
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To Noroway to Noroway | H |
To Noroway oer the faem | I |
The king's daughter of Noroway | H |
'Tis thou maun bring her hame | I |
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The first word that Sir Patrick read | J |
Sae loud loud laughed he | F |
The neist word that Sir Patrick read | J |
The tear blinded his ee | F |
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O wha is this has done this deed | K |
And tauld the king o me | F |
To send us out at this time of the year | L |
To sail upon the sea | F |
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Be it wind be it weet be it hall be it sleet | M |
Our ship must sail the faem | F |
The king's daughter of Noroway | H |
'Tis we must fetch her hame | F |
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They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn | N |
Wi' a' the speed they may | F |
They hae landed in Noroway | H |
Upon a Wodensday | M |
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They hadna been a week a week | O |
In Noroway but twae | H |
When that the lords o Noroway | H |
Began aloud to say | F |
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Ye Scottishmen spend a' our king's goud | M |
And a' our queenis fee | F |
Ye lie ye lie ye liars loud | M |
Fu' loud I hear ye lie | P |
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For I brought as much white monie | N |
As gane my men and me | F |
And I brought a half fou' o' gude red goud | M |
Out o'er the sea wi' me | F |
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Make ready make ready my merry men a' | Q |
Our gude ship sails the morn | N |
Now ever alake my master dear | L |
I fear a deadly storm | F |
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I saw the new moon late yestreen | N |
Wi' the auld moon in her arm | F |
And if we gang to sea master | D |
I fear we'll come to harm | F |
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They hadna sail'd a league a league | R |
A league but barely three | F |
When the lift grew dark and the wind blew loud | M |
And gurly grew the sea | F |
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The ankers brak and the top masts lap | S |
It was sic a deadly storm | F |
And the waves cam o'er the broken ship | T |
Till a' her sides were torn | N |
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O where will I get a gude sailor | D |
To take my helm in hand | M |
Till I get up to the tall top mast | M |
To see if I can spy land | M |
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O here am I a sailor gude | M |
To take the helm in hand | M |
Till you go up to the tall top mast | M |
But I fear you'll ne'er spy land | M |
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He hadna gane a step a step | U |
A step but barely ane | N |
When a bout flew out of our goodly ship | T |
And the salt sea it came in | N |
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Gae fetch a web o' the silken claith | V |
Another o' the twine | N |
And wap them into our ship's side | M |
And let na the sea come in | N |
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They fetchd a web o the silken claith | V |
Another o the twine | N |
And they wapped them roun that gude ship's side | M |
But still the sea came in | N |
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O laith laith were our gude Scots lords | A |
To weet their cork heel'd shoon | N |
But lang or a the play was play'd | M |
They wat their hats aboon | N |
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And mony was the feather bed | M |
That fluttered on the faem | F |
And mony was the gude lord's son | N |
That never mair cam hame | F |
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The ladyes wrang their fingers white | M |
The maidens tore their hair | W |
A' for the sake of their true loves | A |
For them they'll see na mair | W |
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O lang lang may the ladyes sit | M |
Wi' their fans into their hand | M |
Before they see Sir Patrick Spens | A |
Come sailing to the strand | M |
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And lang lang may the maidens sit | M |
Wi' their goud kaims in their hair | W |
A' waiting for their ain dear loves | A |
For them they'll see na mair | W |
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O forty miles off Aberdeen | N |
'Tis fifty fathoms deep | X |
And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens | A |
Wi' the Scots lords at his feet | M |
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