The Siren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABA CCDCDC EFGEGE HHCHCH CCCCCC IIAIAI CCJCJC KLIIII JJMJIJ JJN NJ AEOJOJ CCPC C JJJJJJ JJIJI JJCJCJ QEEQEE QQJQJQ CCJCJ RRERERShe sung a song an' I sat silent there | A |
Wiv bofe 'ands grippin' 'ard on me chair | A |
Me 'eart that yesterdee I thort wus broke | B |
Wiv 'umpin sich a 'eavy load o' care | A |
Come swelling in me throat like I would choke | B |
I felt 'ot blushes climbin' to me 'air | A |
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'Twas like that feelin' when the Spring wind breaves | C |
Sad music in the sof'ly rustlin' leaves | C |
An' when a bloke sits down an' starts to chew | D |
Crook thorts wivout quite knowin' why 'e grieves | C |
Fer things 'e's done 'e didn't ort to do | D |
Fair winded wiv the 'eavy sighs 'e 'eaves | C |
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She sung a song an' orl at once I seen | E |
The kind o' crool an' 'eartless broot I been | F |
In ev'ry word I read it like a book | G |
The slanter game I'd played wiv my Doreen | E |
I 'eard it in 'er song an' in 'er look | G |
I seen wot made me feel fair rotten mean | E |
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Poor 'urt Doreen My tender bit o' fluff | H |
Ar men don't understand they're fur too rough | H |
Their ways is fur too coarse wiv lovin' tarts | C |
They never gives 'em symperthy enough | H |
They treats 'em 'arsh they tramples on their 'earts | C |
Becos their own crool 'earts is leather tough | H |
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She sung a song an' orl them bitter things | C |
That chewin' over lovers' quarrils brings | C |
Guv place to thorts of sorrer an' remorse | C |
Like when some dilly punter goes an' slings | C |
'Is larst lone deener on some stiffened 'orse | C |
An' learns them vain regrets wot 'urts an' stings | C |
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'Twas at a beano where I lobs along | I |
To drown them memories o' fancied wrong | I |
I swears I never knoo that she'd be there | A |
But when I met 'er eye O 'struth 'twas strong | I |
'Twas bitter strong that jolt o' dull despair | A |
'Er look o' scorn An' then she sung a song | I |
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The choon was one o' them sad mournful things | C |
That ketch yeh in the bellers 'ere and brings | C |
Tears to yer eyes The words was uv a tart | J |
'Oo's trackin' wiv a silly coot 'oo slings | C |
'Er love aside an' breaks 'er tender 'eart | J |
But 'twasn't that it was the way she sings | C |
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To 'ear 'er voice A bloke 'ud be a log | K |
'Oo kep' 'is block Me mind wus in a fog | L |
Of sorrer for to think 'ow I wus wrong | I |
Ar I 'ave been a fair ungrateful 'og | I |
The feelin' that she put into that song | I |
'Ud melt the 'eart strings of a chiner dog | I |
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I listens wiv me 'eart up in me throat | J |
I drunk in ev'ry word an' ev'ry note | J |
Tears trembles in 'er voice when she tells 'ow | M |
That tart snuffed out becos 'e never wrote | J |
An' then I seen 'ow I wus like that cow | I |
Wiv suddin shame me guilty soul wus smote | J |
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Doreen she never looked my way but stood | J |
'Arf turned away an' beefed it out reel good | J |
Until she sang that bit about the grave | N |
'Too late 'e learned 'e 'ad misunderstood ' | - |
An' then Gorstrooth The pleadin' look she gave | N |
Fair in me face 'ud melt a'eart o' wood | J |
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I dunno 'ow I seen that evenin' thro' | A |
They muster thort I was 'arf shick I knoo | E |
But I 'ad 'urt Doreen wivout no call | O |
I seen me dooty wot I 'ad to do | J |
O strike I could 'a' blubbed before 'em all | O |
But I sat tight an' never cracked a boo | J |
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An' when at larst the tarts they makes a rise | C |
A lop eared coot wiv 'air down to 'is eyes | C |
'E 'ooks on to Doreen an' starts to roam | P |
Fer 'ome an' muvver I lines up an' cries | C |
''An's orf I'm seein' this 'ere cliner 'ome ' | - |
An' there we left 'im gapin' wiv surprise | C |
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She never spoke she never said no word | J |
But walked beside me like she never 'eard | J |
I swallers 'ard an' starts to coax an' plead | J |
I sez I'm dead ashamed o' wot's occurred | J |
She don't reply she never takes no 'eed | J |
Jist stares before 'er like a startled bird | J |
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I tells 'er never can no uvver tart | J |
Be 'arf wot she is if we 'ave to part | J |
I tells 'er that me life will be a wreck | I |
It ain't no go But when I makes a start | J |
To walk away 'er arms is roun' me neck | I |
'Ah Kid ' she sobs 'Yeh nearly broke me 'eart ' | - |
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I dunno wot I done or wot I said | J |
But 'struth I'll not forgit it till I'm dead | J |
That night when 'ope back in me brisket lobs | C |
'Ow my Doreen she lays 'er little 'ead | J |
Down on me shoulder 'ere an' sobs an' sobs | C |
An' orl the lights goes sorter blurred an' red | J |
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Say square an' all It don't seem right some'ow | Q |
To say such things but wot I'm feelin' now | E |
'As come at times I s'pose to uvver men | E |
When you 'ave 'ad a reel ole ding dong row | Q |
Say ain't it bonzer makin' up agen | E |
Straight wire it's almost worth Ar I'm a cow | E |
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To think I'd ever seek to 'arm a 'air | Q |
Of 'er dear 'ead agen My oath I swear | Q |
No more I'll roust on 'er in angry 'eat | J |
But still she never seemed to me so fair | Q |
She never wus so tender or so sweet | J |
As when she smooged beneath the lamplight there | Q |
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She's never been so lovin' wiv 'er gaze | C |
So gentle wiv 'er pretty wimmin's ways | C |
I tells 'er she's me queen me angel too | J |
'Ah no I ain't no angel Kid ' she says | C |
'I'm jist a woman an' I loves yeh true | J |
An' so I'll love yeh all me mortal days ' | - |
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She sung a song 'Ere in me barmy style | R |
I sets orl tarts for in me hour o' trile | R |
Me soul was withered be a woman's frown | E |
An' broodin' care come roostin' on me dile | R |
She sung a song Me 'eart wiv woe carst down | E |
Wus raised to 'Eaven be a woman's smile | R |
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