Sean O'cosgair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFE GHHFF FFIFFI| Pity it was that you should ever stand | A |
| In ship or boat | B |
| Or that you went afloat | B |
| Inside that ship | C |
| - | |
| The lusty steps you took | D |
| The ways and journeys you knew how to wend | E |
| From London back to Beltra | F |
| And this end | E |
| - | |
| You who could swim so well | G |
| What time you sported in the lifting tides | H |
| The girls swam out to you and held your sides | H |
| When they were weary for they knew they were | F |
| Safe because you were there | F |
| - | |
| Your little mother thought that this was true | F |
| And so she made no stir | F |
| Till you were found | I |
| Although an hundred might be drown d you | F |
| Would come back safe to her | F |
| And not be drowned | I |
James Stephens
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