The Merman (from The Old Danish) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB AA CC DD EE FF GG HH GG AA AA II JJ KK AA| Do thou dear Mother contrive amain | A |
| How Marsk Stig's daughter I may gain | A |
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| She made him of water a noble steed | B |
| Whose trappings were form'd from rush and reed | B |
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| To a young knight chang'd she then her son | A |
| To Mary's church at full speed he's gone | A |
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| His foaming horse to the gate he bound | C |
| And pac'd the church full three times round | C |
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| When in he walk'd with his plume on high | D |
| The dead men gave from their tombs a sigh | D |
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| The priest heard that and he clos'd his book | E |
| Methinks yon knight has a strange wild look | E |
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| Then laugh'd the maiden beneath her sleeve | F |
| If he were my husband I should not grieve | F |
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| He stepp'd over benches one and two | G |
| O Marsk Stig's daughter I doat on you | G |
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| He stepp'd over benches two and three | H |
| O Marsk Stig's daughter come home with me | H |
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| Then said the maid without more ado | G |
| Here take my troth I will go with you | G |
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| They went from the church a bridal train | A |
| And danc'd so gaily across the plain | A |
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| They danc'd till they came to the strand and then | A |
| They were forsaken by maids and men | A |
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| Now Marsk Stig's daughter sit down and rest | I |
| To build a boat I will do my best | I |
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| He built a boat of the whitest sand | J |
| And away they went from the smiling land | J |
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| But when they had cross'd the ninth green wave | K |
| Down sunk the boat to the ocean cave | K |
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| I caution ye maids as well as I can | A |
| Ne'er give your troth to an unknown man | A |
George Borrow
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