Mermaid I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFDGDFHIHJHKL MHHNHOOPFQRQFQSQFQTQ UQVQHPBPWXHFHHOYZY| AS we lay musing in our beds | A |
| So well and so warm at ease | B |
| I thought upon those lodging beds | A |
| Poor seamen have at seas | B |
| Last Easter day in the morning fair | C |
| We was not far from land | D |
| Where we spied a mermaid on the rock | E |
| With comb and glass in hand | D |
| The first came up the mate of our ship | F |
| With lead and line in hand | D |
| To sound and see how deep we was | G |
| From any rock or sand | D |
| The next came up the boatswain of our ship | F |
| With courage stout and bold | H |
| Stand fast stand fast my brave lively lads | I |
| Stand fast my brave hearts of gold | H |
| Our gallant ship is gone to wreck | J |
| Which was so lately trimmd | H |
| The raging seas has sprung a leak | K |
| And the salt water does run in | L |
| Our gold and silver and all our cloths | M |
| And all that ever we had | H |
| We forced was to heave them overboard | H |
| Thinking our lives to save | N |
| In all the number that was on board | H |
| Was five hundred and sixty four | O |
| And all that ever came alive on shore | O |
| There was but poor ninety five | P |
| The first bespoke the captain of our ship | F |
| And a well spoke man was he | Q |
| I have a wife in fair Plymouth town | R |
| And a widow I fear she must be | Q |
| The next bespoke the mate of our ship | F |
| And a well bespoke man was he | Q |
| I have a wife in fair Portsmouth | S |
| And a widow I fear she must be | Q |
| The next bespoke the boatswain of our ship | F |
| And a well bespoke man was he | Q |
| I have a wife in fair Exeter | T |
| And a widow I fear she must be | Q |
| The next bespoke the little cabbin boy | U |
| And a well bespoke boy was he | Q |
| I am as sorry for my mother dear | V |
| As you are for your wives all three | Q |
| Last night when the moon shin d bright | H |
| My mother had sons five | P |
| But now she may look in the salt seas | B |
| And find but one alive | P |
| Call a boat call a boat you little | W |
| Plymouth boys | X |
| Don t you hear how the trumpet s sound | H |
| For the want of our boat our gallant ship | F |
| is lost | H |
| And the most of our merry men is drownd | H |
| Whilst the raging seas do roar | O |
| And the lofty winds do blow | Y |
| And we poor seamen do lie on the top | Z |
| Whilst the landmen lies below | Y |
Anonymous Olde English
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