My Grief On The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGGG HIJI KLML BNON| From the Irish | A |
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| My grief on the sea | B |
| How the waves of it roll | C |
| For they heave between me | B |
| And the love of my soul | C |
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| Abandon'd forsaken | D |
| To grief and to care | E |
| Will the sea ever waken | D |
| Relief from despair | E |
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| My grief and my trouble | F |
| Would he and I were | G |
| In the province of Leinster | G |
| Or County of Clare | G |
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| Were I and my darling | H |
| O heart bitter wound | I |
| On board of the ship | J |
| For America bound | I |
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| On a green bed of rushes | K |
| All last night I lay | L |
| And I flung it abroad | M |
| With the heat of the day | L |
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| And my Love came behind me | B |
| He came from the South | N |
| His breast to my bosom | O |
| His mouth to my mouth | N |
Douglas Hyde
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