Songs Of The Night Watches, - The Morning Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEC FGHGCG IJEJKJ LJMJNJ HCOCPC AQRQSQ| THE COMING IN OF THE MERMAIDEN | A |
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| The moon is bleached as white as wool | B |
| And just dropping under | C |
| Every star is gone but three | D |
| And they hang far asunder | C |
| There's a sea ghost all in gray | E |
| A tall shape of wonder | C |
| - | |
| I am not satisfied with sleep | F |
| The night is not ended | G |
| But look how the sea ghost comes | H |
| With wan skirts extended | G |
| Stealing up in this weird hour | C |
| When light and dark are blended | G |
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| A vessel To the old pier end | I |
| Her happy course she's keeping | J |
| I heard them name her yesterday | E |
| Some were pale with weeping | J |
| Some with their heart hunger sighed | K |
| She's in and they are sleeping | J |
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| O now with fancied greetings blest | L |
| They comfort their long aching | J |
| The sea of sleep hath borne to them | M |
| What would not come with waking | J |
| And the dreams shall most be true | N |
| In their blissful breaking | J |
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| The stars are gone the rose bloom comes | H |
| No blush of maid is sweeter | C |
| The red sun half way out of bed | O |
| Shall be the first to greet her | C |
| None tell the news yet sleepers wake | P |
| And rise and run to meet her | C |
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| Their lost they have they hold from pain | A |
| A keener bliss they borrow | Q |
| How natural is joy my heart | R |
| How easy after sorrow | Q |
| For once the best is come that hope | S |
| Promised them to morrow | Q |
Jean Ingelow
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