The Days Without Alloy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCB EBEB FBFB| When I sit on market days amid the comers and the goers | A |
| Oh full oft I have a vision of the days without alloy | B |
| And a ship comes up the river with a jolly gang of towers | A |
| And a pull'e haul'e pull'e haul'e yoy heave hoy | B |
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| There is busy talk around me all about mine ears it hummeth | C |
| But the wooden wharves I look on and a dancing heaving buoy | D |
| For 'tis tidetime in the river and she cometh oh she cometh | C |
| With a pull'e haul'e pull'e haul'e yoy heave hoy | B |
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| Then I hear the water washing never golden waves were brighter | E |
| And I hear the capstan creaking 'tis a sound that cannot cloy | B |
| Bring her to to ship her lading brig or schooner sloop or lighter | E |
| With a pull'e haul'e pull'e haul'e yoy heave hoy | B |
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| Will ye step aboard my dearest for the high seas lie before us | F |
| So I sailed adown the river in those days without alloy | B |
| We are launched But when I wonder shall a sweeter sound float o'er us | F |
| Than yon pull'e haul'e pull'e haul'e yoy heave hoy | B |
Jean Ingelow
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