The Three Fishers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCD EBEBCCD FBFBCCD| Three fishers went sailing away to the west | A |
| Away to the west as the sun went down | B |
| Each thought on the woman who loved him the best | A |
| And the children stood watching them out of the town | B |
| For men must work and women must weep | C |
| And there's little to earn and many to keep | C |
| Though the harbor bar be moaning | D |
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| Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower | E |
| And they trimm'd the lamps as the sun went down | B |
| They look'd at the squall and they look'd at the shower | E |
| And the night rack came rolling up ragged and brown | B |
| But men must work and women must weep | C |
| Though storms be sudden and waters deep | C |
| And the harbor bar be moaning | D |
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| Three corpses lay out on the shining sands | F |
| In the morning gleam as the tide went down | B |
| And the women are weeping and wringing their hands | F |
| For those who will never come home to the town | B |
| For men must work and women must weep | C |
| And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep | C |
| And good bye to the bar and its moaning | D |
Charles Kingsley
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Gregory Groff: For me the very best reading
is in the old movie Queen of the amazon
Thomas C.O'Connell:
It's a very searching poem which "begs" but One Conclusion
when I've dreamed of Those Men in their curraghs setting-out into the Atlantic
from the Arran Islands and Our Western Seashores.
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