The Sailor's Wife Speaks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBB DEFFEE GBHIH BB JAGGAA| Ye are dead they say but ye swore ye swore | A |
| Ye would come to me back from the sea | B |
| From out of the sea and the night ye cried | C |
| Nor the crawling weed nor the dragging tide | C |
| Could hold ye fast from me | B |
| Come ah come to me | B |
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| Three spells I have laid on the rising sun | D |
| And three on the waning moon | E |
| Are ye held in the bonds of the night or the day | F |
| Ye must loosen your bonds and away away | F |
| Ye must come where I wait ye soon | E |
| Ah soon soon soon | E |
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| Three times I have cast my words to the wind | G |
| And thrice to the climbing sea | B |
| If ye drift or dream with the clouds or foam | H |
| Ye must drift again home ye must drift again | I |
| home | H |
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| Wraith ye are free ye are free | B |
| Ghost ye are free ye are free | B |
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| Are the coasts of death so fair so fair | J |
| But I wait ye here on the shore | A |
| It is I that ye hear in the calling wind | G |
| I have stared through the dark till my soul is blind | G |
| O lover of mine ye swore | A |
| Lover of mine ye swore | A |
Don Marquis
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