The Indifferent Mariner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEAE FEGE HIJI KLAM NNNN OEAE| I'm a tough old salt and it's never I care | A |
| A penny which way the wind is | B |
| Or whether I sight Cape Finisterre | A |
| Or make a port at the Indies | C |
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| Some folks steer for a port to trade | D |
| And some steer north for the whaling | E |
| Yet never I care a damn just where | A |
| I sail so long's I'm sailing | E |
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| You never can stop the wind when it blows | F |
| And you can't stop the rain from raining | E |
| Then why oh why go a piping of your eye | G |
| When there's no sort o' use in complaining | E |
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| My face is browned and my lungs are sound | H |
| And my hands they are big and calloused | I |
| I've a little brown jug I sometimes hug | J |
| And a little bread and meat for ballast | I |
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| But I keep no log of my daily grog | K |
| For what's the use o' being bothered | L |
| I drink a little more when the wind's offshore | A |
| And most when the wind's from the no'th'ard | M |
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| Of course with a chill if I'm took quite ill | N |
| And my legs get weak and toddly | N |
| At the jug I pull and turn in full | N |
| And sleep the sleep of the godly | N |
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| But whether I do or whether I don't | O |
| Or whether the jug's my failing | E |
| It's never I care a damn just where | A |
| I sail so long's I'm sailing | E |
Arthur Macy
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