To Her Sea-faring Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDECCFFFFGGHHIJ KK| Shall 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 |
| 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 |
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