Floating With The Gale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDBD E AFAFGDGD BHBHBDBD E AIAIADAD E BJBJBDBD E BKBKBDBD E| TO MY LOST BROTHER | A |
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| Ships the angry sea is lashing | B |
| But I launch my little bark | C |
| Though the thunder peals are crashing | B |
| And the sea is pitchy dark | C |
| See by lightning's vivid flashing | B |
| How to shift my tattered sail | D |
| Far across the billows dashing | B |
| I am floating with the gale | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Floating floating floating ever | A |
| On the stormy deep blue sea | F |
| Far from father and dear mother | A |
| And true love away from thee | F |
| Go ye zephyrs sweetly laden | G |
| Cheer my loved ones in their wail | D |
| Tell my wee sweet bright eyed maiden | G |
| I am floating with the gale | D |
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| When the siren maids are waking | B |
| And are singing wild sea songs | H |
| Dear they start my heart to aching | B |
| For its love to thee belongs | H |
| Now my love lorn soul is shaking | B |
| With a spell of bitter wail | D |
| And my heart is sadly breaking | B |
| For I'm floating with the gale | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Now my hopes are fading ever | A |
| Gloom is chasing 'way the bliss | I |
| Dear I know that I can never | A |
| Come thy ruby lips to kiss | I |
| But my heart will cling forever | A |
| To that love I oft did hail | D |
| For those ties I can not sever | A |
| Though I'm floating with the gale | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Dear my heart is ever longing | B |
| Longs surfmen my bark to save | J |
| Through my brain these thoughts are thronging | B |
| Of a grave beneath the wave | J |
| Of loved ones my heart is wronging | B |
| And the belly of the whale | D |
| 'Round my soul their ghosts are thronging | B |
| As I'm floating with the gale | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Dear I fain would be returning | B |
| To the cove just where thou art | K |
| While my languid breast is burning | B |
| Light and love full out my heart | K |
| But cruel Fate my hopes is spurning | B |
| And winds blow against my sail | D |
| While out Death my life is burning | B |
| I'm still floating with the gale | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
Edward Smyth Jones
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