My True Love Is A Sailor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEFEGBHB HIJIGKGK FLFLMNMN| 'T was somewhere in the April time | A |
| Not long before the May | B |
| A sitting on a bank o' thyme | A |
| I heard a maiden say | B |
| My true love is a sailor | C |
| And ere he went away | B |
| We spent a year together | C |
| And here my lover lay | B |
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| The gold furze was in blossom | D |
| So was the daisy too | E |
| The dew drops on the little flowers | F |
| Were emeralds in hue | E |
| On this same Summer morning | G |
| Though then the Sabbath day | B |
| He crop't me Spring pol'ant'uses | H |
| Beneath the whitethorn may | B |
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| He crop't me Spring pol'ant'uses | H |
| And said if they would keep | I |
| They'd tell me of love's fantasies | J |
| For dews on them did weep | I |
| And I did weep at parting | G |
| Which lasted all the week | K |
| And when he turned for starting | G |
| My full heart could not speak | K |
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| The same roots grow pol'ant'us' flowers | F |
| Beneath the same haw tree | L |
| I crop't them in morn's dewy hours | F |
| And here love's offerings be | L |
| O come to me my sailor beau | M |
| And ease my aching breast | N |
| The storms shall cease to rave and blow | M |
| And here thy life find rest | N |
John Clare
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