The Fisherman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BC DC D E FE GH IH I J KJ KL ML L A LA LI DI D| THE waters rush'd the waters rose | A |
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| A fisherman sat by | B |
| While on his line in calm repose | A |
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| He cast his patient eye | B |
| And as he sat and hearken'd there | C |
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| The flood was cleft in twain | D |
| And lo a dripping mermaid fair | C |
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| Sprang from the troubled main | D |
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| She sang to him and spake the while | E |
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| quot Why lurest thou my brood | F |
| With human wit and human guile | E |
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| From out their native flood | G |
| Oh couldst thou know how gladly dart | H |
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| The fish across the sea | I |
| Thou wouldst descend e'en as thou art | H |
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| And truly happy be | I |
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| quot Do not the sun and moon with grace | J |
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| Their forms in ocean lave | K |
| Shines not with twofold charms their face | J |
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| When rising from the wave | K |
| The deep deep heavens then lure thee not | L |
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| The moist yet radiant blue | M |
| Not thine own form to tempt thy lot | L |
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| 'Midst this eternal dew quot | L |
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| The waters rush'd the waters rose | A |
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| Wetting his naked feet | L |
| As if his true love's words were those | A |
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| His heart with longing beat | L |
| She sang to him to him spake she | I |
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| His doom was fix'd I ween | D |
| Half drew she him and half sank he | I |
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| And ne'er again was seen | D |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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