The Boatswain-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAF GHEHFIAI FJFKLMAM NOPOEQAQ RFFFSTAT UVSVKWAW| A CHEER to keep our hearts up | A |
| A cup to drown our tears | B |
| And we'll talk of those who perished | C |
| Our mates in former years | D |
| The Betsey was a vessel | E |
| As tight as ship could be | F |
| And we cheered to keep our hearts up | A |
| As she tossed upon the sea | F |
| - | |
| Thro' one dark day we struggled | G |
| To stem the foaming tide | H |
| Night came the straining vessel | E |
| All helplessly did ride | H |
| The storm was raging loudly | F |
| The angry heavens did frown | I |
| A cheer to keep your hearts up | A |
| The Betsey she went down | I |
| - | |
| The morning broke which many | F |
| Might never see again | J |
| And thick and blind and heavy | F |
| Came down the drenching rain | K |
| We got the smallest boat out | L |
| Jack Tom and I and gave | M |
| A cheer to keep our hearts up | A |
| As we toiled against the wave | M |
| - | |
| Three days we struggled onward | N |
| Without a sight of land | O |
| And we grew so faint and failing | P |
| We could scarcely bear a hand | O |
| It's a bitter thing to battle | E |
| With the ocean for your foe | Q |
| We cheered to keep our hearts up | A |
| But the cheer was hoarse and low | Q |
| - | |
| Then we thought with sinking spirits | R |
| Of the shore we'd never see | F |
| Tom wept and thought of Mary | F |
| Jack talked of home with me | F |
| Each brawny arm grew fainter | S |
| The boat was thinly stored | T |
| A cheer to keep your hearts up | A |
| Poor Jack went overboard | T |
| - | |
| At last somehow we landed | U |
| Where the cliff was steep and high | V |
| We told Jack's poor old mother | S |
| We were too much men to cry | V |
| They'd ha' liked to see me Boatswain | K |
| The Betsey's gallant crew | W |
| Come a cheer to keep our hearts up | A |
| We shall all of us die too | W |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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