Song Of The Sailor Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFF GHGHIJKJFF LMLMNON FF| Cheer up cheer up my mother dear | A |
| Ah Why do you sit and weep | B |
| Do you think that he who guards me here | C |
| Forsakes me on the deep | B |
| Let hope and faith light up your glance | D |
| When you see our ship set sail | E |
| Look look at her now and see her dance | D |
| Oh Why do you turn so pale | E |
| There's an English flag and an English crew | F |
| So mother be proud of your boy in blue | F |
| - | |
| Ah Wonder not that next to thee | G |
| I love the galloping wave | H |
| 'Tis the first of coursers bold and free | G |
| And fit to carry the brave | H |
| It may bear me on to a dark lee shore | I |
| To sink with a gallant band | J |
| But early or late here's a heart for my fate | K |
| Let it come on the sea or the land | J |
| The storm and the battle shall find me true | F |
| So mother be proud of your boy in blue | F |
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| And if the breakers kill our ship | L |
| And your boy goes down in the foam | M |
| Be sure the last breath on his lip | L |
| Was a prayer for those at home | M |
| But come cheer up methinks I heard | N |
| A voice in the anchor chain | O |
| That whispered like a fairy bird | N |
| 'The Ship will come again ' | - |
| God bless thee mother adieu adieu | F |
| But never weep for your boy in blue | F |
Eliza Cook
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