When You Are On The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JDKD ADAD| How can I laugh or dance as others do | A |
| Or ply my rock or reel | B |
| My heart will still return to dreams of you | A |
| Beside my spinning wheel | B |
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| My little dog he cried out in the dark | C |
| He would not whisht for me | D |
| I took him to my side why did he bark | C |
| When you were on the sea | D |
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| I fear the red cock if he crow to night | E |
| I keep him close and warm | F |
| 'Twere ill with me if he should wake in fright | E |
| And you out in the storm | F |
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| I dare not smile for fear my laugh would ring | G |
| Across your dying ears | H |
| O if you drifting drowned should hear me sing | G |
| And think I had not tears | I |
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| I never thought the sea could wake such waves | J |
| Nor that such winds could be | D |
| I never wept when other eyes grew blind | K |
| For some one on the sea | D |
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| But now I fear and pray all things for you | A |
| How many dangers be | D |
| I set my wheel aside what can I do | A |
| When you are on the sea | D |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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