A Ballad Of Marjorie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FGHG ABIB JKLK JBMB NBOB P QR S TU J VK W XY ZFA2F B2BZB| What ails you that you look so pale | A |
| O fisher of the sea | B |
| 'Tis for a mournful tale I own | C |
| Fair maiden Marjorie | B |
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| What is the dreary tale to tell | D |
| O toiler of the sea | B |
| I cast my net into the waves | E |
| Sweet maiden Marjorie | B |
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| I cast my net into the tide | F |
| Before I made for home | G |
| Too heavy for my hands to raise | H |
| I drew it through the foam | G |
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| What saw you that you look so pale | A |
| Sad searcher of the sea | B |
| A dead man's body from the deep | I |
| My haul had brought to me | B |
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| And was he young and was he fair | J |
| Oh cruel to behold | K |
| In his white face the joy of life | L |
| Not yet was grown a cold | K |
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| Oh pale you are and full of prayer | J |
| For one who sails the sea | B |
| Because the dead looked up and spoke | M |
| Poor maiden Marjorie | B |
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| What said he that you seem so sad | N |
| O fisher of the sea | B |
| Alack I know it was my love | O |
| Who fain would speak to me | B |
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| He said 'Beware a woman's mouth | P |
| A rose that bears a thorn ' | - |
| Ah me these lips shall smile no more | Q |
| That gave my lover scorn | R |
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| He said 'Beware a woman's eyes | S |
| They pierce you with their death ' | - |
| Then falling tears shall make them blind | T |
| That robbed my dear of breath | U |
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| He said 'Beware a woman's hair | J |
| A serpent's coil of gold ' | - |
| Then will I shear the cruel locks | V |
| That crushed him in their fold | K |
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| He said 'Beware a woman's heart | W |
| As you would shun the reef ' | - |
| So let it break within my breast | X |
| And perish of my grief | Y |
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| He raised his hands a woman's name | Z |
| Thrice bitterly he cried | F |
| My net had parted with the strain | A2 |
| He vanished in the tide | F |
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| A woman's name What name but mine | B2 |
| O fisher of the sea | B |
| A woman's name but not your name | Z |
| Poor maiden Marjorie | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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