A Fisher-wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| The soonest mended nothing said | A |
| And help may rise from east or west | B |
| But my two hands are lumps of lead | A |
| My heart sits leaden in my breast | B |
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| O north wind swoop not from the north | C |
| O south wind linger in the south | D |
| Oh come not raving raging forth | C |
| To bring my heart into my mouth | D |
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| For I've a husband out at sea | E |
| Afloat on feeble planks of wood | F |
| He does not know what fear may be | E |
| I would have told him if I could | F |
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| I would have locked him in my arms | G |
| I would have hid him in my heart | H |
| For oh the waves are fraught with harms | G |
| And he and I so far apart | H |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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