Sailor's Song, Returning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDE FFAAC GGHHC IIJJC KKLLC MMDNC OOPPC QQRRC MMNDC SSMEC TTUUCDE| The sea goes up the sky comes down | A |
| Oh can you spy the ancient town | A |
| The granite hills so green and gray | B |
| That rib the land behind the bay | B |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
| Fair winds boys send her home | D |
| O ye ho | E |
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| Three years Is it so long that we | F |
| Have lived upon the lonely sea | F |
| Oh often I thought we'd see the town | A |
| When the sea went up and the sky came down | A |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| Even the winter winds would rouse | G |
| A memory of my father's house | G |
| For round his windows and his door | H |
| They made the same deep mouthless roar | H |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| And when the summer's breezes beat | I |
| Methought I saw the sunny street | I |
| Where stood my Kate Beneath her hand | J |
| She gazed far out far out from land | J |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| Farthest away I oftenest dreamed | K |
| That I was with her Then it seemed | K |
| A single stride the ocean wide | L |
| Had bridged and brought me to her side | L |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| But though so near we're drawing now | M |
| 'T is farther off I know not how | M |
| We sail and sail we see no home | D |
| Would that we into port were come | N |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| At night the same stars o'er the mast | O |
| The mast sways round however fast | O |
| We fly still sways and swings around | P |
| One scanty circle's starry bound | P |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| Ah many a month those stars have shone | Q |
| And many a golden morn has flown | Q |
| Since that so solemn happy morn | R |
| When I away my babe was born | R |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| And though so near we're drawing now | M |
| 'T is farther off I know not how | M |
| I would not aught amiss had come | N |
| To babe or mother there at home | D |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| 'T is but a seeming swiftly rush | S |
| The seas beneath I hear the crush | S |
| Of foamy ridges 'gainst the prow | M |
| Longing outspeeds the breeze I know | E |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
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| Patience my mates Though not this eve | T |
| We cast our anchor yet believe | T |
| If but the wind holds short the run | U |
| We'll sail in with to morrow's sun | U |
| O ye ho boys Spread her wings | C |
| Fair winds boys send her home | D |
| O ye ho | E |
George Parsons Lathrop
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