A Stave Of Roving Tim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFCFC AGAGAHAHFCFC HHHHGHGHFCFC IGIGJHJHFCFC KAKALALAFCFC MCMCNGNGFCFC OHOHPQPQFCFC AAAARHRHFCFCADDRESSED TO CERTAIN FRIENDLY TRAMPS | A |
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I | - |
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The wind is East the wind is West | B |
Blows in and out of haven | C |
The wind that blows is the wind that's best | B |
And croak my jolly raven | C |
If here awhile we jigged and laughed | D |
The like we will do yonder | E |
For he's the man who masters a craft | D |
And light as a lord can wander | E |
So foot the measure Roving Tim | F |
And croak my jolly raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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II | - |
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You live in rows of snug abodes | A |
With gold maybe for counting | G |
And mine's the beck of the rainy roads | A |
Against the sun a mounting | G |
I take the day as it behaves | A |
Nor shiver when 'tis airy | H |
But comes a breeze all you are on waves | A |
Sick chickens o' Mother Carey | H |
So now for next cries Roving Tim | F |
And croak my jolly raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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III | - |
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Sweet lass you screw a lovely leer | H |
To make a man consider | H |
If you were up with the auctioneer | H |
I'd be a handsome bidder | H |
But wedlock clips the rover's wing | G |
She tricks him fly to spider | H |
And when we get to fights in the Ring | G |
It's trumps when you play outsider | H |
So wrench and split cries Roving Tim | F |
And croak my jolly raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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IV | - |
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Along my winding way I know | I |
A shady dell that's winking | G |
The very corner for Self and Co | I |
To do a world of thinking | G |
And shall I this and shall I that | J |
Till Nature answers ne'ther | H |
Strike match and light your pipe in your hat | J |
Rejoicing in sound shoe leather | H |
So lead along cries Roving Tim | F |
And croak my jolly raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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V | - |
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A cunning hand 'll hand you bread | K |
With freedom for your capers | A |
I'm not so sure of a cunning head | K |
It steers to pits or vapours | A |
But as for Life we'll bear in sight | L |
The lesson Nature teaches | A |
Regard it in a sailoring light | L |
And treat it like thirsty leeches | A |
So fly your jib cries Roving Tim | F |
And top your boom old raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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VI | - |
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She'll take to please her dame and dad | M |
The shopman nicely shaven | C |
She'll learn to think o' the marching lad | M |
When perchers show they're craven | C |
You say the shopman piles a heap | N |
While I perhaps am fasting | G |
And bless your wits it haunts him in sleep | N |
His tin kettle chance of lasting | G |
So hail the road cries Roving Tim | F |
And hail the rain old raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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VII | - |
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He's half a wife yon pecker bill | O |
A book and likewise preacher | H |
With any soul in a game of skill | O |
He'll prove your over reacher | H |
The reason is his brains are bent | P |
On doing things right single | Q |
You'd wish for them when pitching your tent | P |
At night in a whirly dingle | Q |
So off we go cries Roving Tim | F |
And on we go old raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
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VIII | - |
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Lord no man's lot is not for bliss | A |
To call it woe is blindness | A |
It'll here a kick and it's there a kiss | A |
And here and there a kindness | A |
He starts a hare and calls her joy | R |
He runs her down to sorrow | H |
The dogs within him bother the boy | R |
But 'tis a new day to morrow | H |
So I at helm cries Roving Tim | F |
And you at bow old raven | C |
The wind according to its whim | F |
Is in and out of haven | C |
George Meredith
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