The Return Of Morgan And Fingal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH EIJI EEKE ELBL EMBN EOPO EEIE QKRK LBSB EEEE ETOT EEIE JNEN UEIE AEVE WBNB XYEY EZA2Z GYB2H ABTBAnd there we were together again | A |
Together again we three | B |
Morgan Fingal fiddle and all | C |
They had come for the night with me | B |
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The spirit of joy was in Morgan's wrist | D |
There were songs in Fingal's throat | E |
And secure outside for the spray to drench | F |
Was a tossed and empty boat | E |
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And there were the pipes and there was the punch | G |
And somewhere were twelve years | H |
So it came in the manner of things unsought | E |
That a quick knock vexed our ears | H |
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The night wind hovered and shrieked and snarled | E |
And I heard Fingal swear | I |
Then I opened the door but I found no more | J |
Than a chalk skinned woman there | I |
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I looked and at last What is it I said | E |
What is it that we can do | E |
But never a word could I get from her | K |
But You you three it is you | E |
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Now the sense of a crazy speech like that | E |
Was more than a man could make | L |
So I said But we we are what we three | B |
And I saw the creature shake | L |
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Be quick she cried for I left her dead | E |
And I was afraid to come | M |
But you you three God made it be | B |
Will ferry the dead girl home | N |
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Be quick be quick but listen to that | E |
Who is that makes it hark | O |
But I heard no more than a knocking splash | P |
And a wind that shook the dark | O |
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It is only the wind that blows I said | E |
And the boat that rocks outside | E |
And I watched her there and I pitied her there | I |
Be quick be quick she cried | E |
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She cried so loud that her voice went in | Q |
To find where my two friends were | K |
So Morgan came and Fingal came | R |
And out we went with her | K |
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'T was a lonely way for a man to take | L |
And a fearsome way for three | B |
And over the water and all day long | S |
They had come for the night with me | B |
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But the girl was dead as the woman had said | E |
And the best we could see to do | E |
Was to lay her aboard The north wind roared | E |
And into the night we flew | E |
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Four of us living and one for a ghost | E |
Furrowing crest and swell | T |
Through the surge and the dark for that faint far spark | O |
We ploughed with Azrael | T |
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Three of us ruffled and one gone mad | E |
Crashing to south we went | E |
And three of us there were too spattered to care | I |
What this late sailing meant | E |
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So down we steered and along we tore | J |
Through the flash of the midnight foam | N |
Silent enough to be ghosts on guard | E |
We ferried the dead girl home | N |
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We ferried her down to the voiceless wharf | U |
And we carried her up to the light | E |
And we left the two to the father there | I |
Who counted the coals that night | E |
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Then back we steered through the foam again | A |
But our thoughts were fast and few | E |
And all we did was to crowd the surge | V |
And to measure the life we knew | E |
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Till at last we came where a dancing gleam | W |
Skipped out to us we three | B |
And the dark wet mooring pointed home | N |
Like a finger from the sea | B |
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Then out we pushed the teetering skiff | X |
And in we drew to the stairs | Y |
And up we went each man content | E |
With a life that fed no cares | Y |
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Fingers were cold and feet were cold | E |
And the tide was cold and rough | Z |
But the light was warm and the room was warm | A2 |
And the world was good enough | Z |
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And there were the pipes and there was the punch | G |
More shrewd than Satan's tears | Y |
Fingal had fashioned it all by himself | B2 |
With a craft that comes of years | H |
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And there we were together again | A |
Together again we three | B |
Morgan Fingal fiddle and all | T |
They were there for the night with me | B |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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