To Her Sea-faring Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDECCFFFFGG HHIJKKSHALL I thus ever long and be no whit the neare | A |
And shall I still complain to thee the which me will not hear | A |
Alas say nay say nay and be no more so dumb | B |
But open thou thy manly mouth and say that thou wilt come | B |
Whereby my heart may think although I see not thee | C |
That thou wilt come thy word so sware if thou a live man be | C |
The roaring hugy waves they threaten my poor ghost | D |
And toss thee up and down the seas in danger to be lost | E |
Shall they not make me fear that they have swallowed thee | C |
But as thou art most sure alive so wilt thou come to me | C |
Whereby I shall go see thy ship ride on the strand | F |
And think and say Lo where he comes and Sure here will he land | F |
And then I shall lift up to thee my little hand | F |
And thou shalt think thine heart in ease in health to see me stand | F |
And if thou come indeed as Christ thee send to do | G |
Those arms which miss thee now shall then embrace and hold thee too | G |
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Each vein to every joint the lively blood shall spread | H |
Which now for want of thy glad sight doth show full pale and dead | H |
But if thou slip thy troth and do not come at all | I |
As minutes in the clock do strike so call for death I shall | J |
To please both thy false heart and rid myself from woe | K |
That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so | K |
Anonymous Olde English
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