Sailor-boy's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DADA EFEG DADA HIHI JAJA KAKA LMLN| Away away o'er the bounding sea | A |
| My spirit flies like a gull | B |
| For I know my Mary is watching for me | A |
| And the moon is bright and full | C |
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| She sits on the rock by the sounding shore | D |
| And gazes over the sea | A |
| And she sighs Will my sailor boy come no more | D |
| Will he never come back to me | A |
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| The moonbeams play in her raven hair | E |
| And the soft breeze kisses her brow | F |
| But if your sailor boy love were there | E |
| He would kiss your sweet lips I trow | G |
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| And mother she sits in the cottage door | D |
| But her heart is out on the sea | A |
| And she sighs Will my sailor boy come no more | D |
| Will he never come back to me | A |
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| Ye winds that over the billows roam | H |
| With a low and sullen moan | I |
| O swiftly come to waft me home | H |
| O bear me back to my own | I |
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| For long have I been on the billowy deep | J |
| On the boundless waste of sea | A |
| And while I sleep there are two who weep | J |
| And watch and pray for me | A |
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| When the mad storm roars till the stoutest fear | K |
| And the thunders roll over the sea | A |
| I think of you Mary and mother dear | K |
| For I know you are thinking of me | A |
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| Then blow ye winds for my swift return | L |
| Let the tempest roar o'er the main | M |
| Let the billows yearn and the lightning burn | L |
| They will hasten me home again | N |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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