A Vagrant Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECC FFGGHHCCIIJJ FFGGKKLL MMNN| O to be a woman to be left to pique and pine | A |
| When the winds are out and calling to this vagrant heart of mine | A |
| Whisht it whistles at the windows and how can I be still | B |
| There the last leaves of the beech tree go dancing down the hill | B |
| All the boats at anchor they are plunging to be free | C |
| O to be a sailor and away across the sea | C |
| When the sky is black with thunder and the sea is white with foam | D |
| The gray gulls whirl up shrieking and seek their rocky home | D |
| Low his boat is lying leeward how she runs upon the gale | E |
| As she rises with the billows nor shakes her dripping sail | E |
| There is danger on the waters there is joy where dangers be | C |
| Alas to be a woman and the nomad's heart in me | C |
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| Ochone to be a woman only sighing on the shore | F |
| With a soul that finds a passion for each long breaker's roar | F |
| With a heart that beats as restless as all the winds that blow | G |
| Thrust a cloth between her fingers and tell her she must sew | G |
| Must join in empty chatter and calculate with straws | H |
| For the weighing of our neighbour for the sake of social laws | H |
| O chatter chatter chatter when to speak is misery | C |
| When silence lies around your heart and night is on the sea | C |
| So tired of little fashions that are root of all our strife | I |
| Of all the petty passions that upset the calm of life | I |
| The law of God upon the land shines steady for all time | J |
| The laws confused that man has made have reason not nor rhyme | J |
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| O bird that fights the heavens and is blown beyond the shore | F |
| Would you leave your flight and danger for a cage to fight no more | F |
| No more the cold of winter or the hunger of the snow | G |
| Nor the winds that blow you backward from the path you wish to go | G |
| Would you leave your world of passion for a home that knows no riot | K |
| Would I change my vagrant longings for a heart more full of quiet | K |
| No for all its dangers there is joy in danger too | L |
| On bird and fight your tempests and this nomad heart with you | L |
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| The seas that shake and thunder will close our mouths one day | M |
| The storms that shriek and whistle will blow our breaths away | M |
| The dust that flies and whitens will mark not where we trod | N |
| What matters then our judging we are face to face with God | N |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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