Gammer Gaffer - A Ballad Of Gloucester Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 32 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

One night when trees were tumbled down	A
And wild winds shook at sea the sail	B
Old Gammer Gaffer lean and brown	A
Chuckled and whistled on her nail	B
Then seized her broom and mounting it	C
Flew up the chimney with her cat	D
All Dogtown bayed to see her flit	C
The screech owl shrieked and lightning lit	C
About her head flew black the bat	D
	-
II	E
	-
Her crow like body humped and black	F
Seemed part and portion of her broom	G
The black cat crouched upon her back	F
Lit with its yellow eyes the gloom	G
Towards Gloucester Town she took her flight	H
And night grew wilder as she went	I
The wind blew out the fisher's light	H
And tore his sails in tatters white	H
And strewed them through the firmament	H
	-
III	E
	-
Old shutters clapped and windows rapped	H
And shingles shook as if in pain	J
Her besom on each old door slapped	H
And flapped as cloaked and conical capped	H
Whisked by old Gammer Gaffer's train	J
	-
IV	K
	-
To window panes where candle light	H
Showed some good wife who sat alone	L
She pressed her sharp face skinny white	H
And knocked with knuckled hands of bone	L
Then croaked and mumbled like the draught	H
That grumbles in the chimney flue	M
Or on the gables danced and laughed	H
Her old cloak flapping as if daft	H
While round her face her wild hair blew	M
	-
V	K
	-
Old gutters dripped and dead leaves skipped	H
And wildly struck the village clock	N
As off a shutter here she ripped	H
Old Gammer or like madness whipped	H
Around and 'round some weather cock	N
	-
VI	K
	-
Then at one door she shook the latch	O
And to a cranny set her chin	P
And croaked 'Hey here's an egg to hatch	O
Eh Goodie Brown come take it in	P
I've news for ye Good news he he	K
Your old man he's gone down at sea	K
There's something eh to hearten ye	K
Hey what man now shall wear his shoes '	-
	-
VII	K
	-
And chuckling to herself again	Q
Around the house she rode her broom	G
Then mounted to the weather vane	J
And whirled and maundered to the gloom	G
'Aye weep ye women weep and wail	B
'Twas I who wrought your good men's weird	H
'Twas I who raised the Gloucester gale	B
'Twas I who tattered shroud and sail	B
And seized and drowned them by my beard '	-
	-
VIII	K
	-
Old sign boards squeaked and gables creaked	H
And crazy gates closed with a bang	R
As parrot beaked and lanthorn cheeked	H
Old Gammer round the belfry shrieked	H
And made its cracked old bell go clang	R
	-
IX	K
	-
So round and round the old Cape Town	A
She whirled and whined as whines the wind	H
Now this way blew her rag of gown	A
Now that way through the blackness blind	H
And as she went she crowed and croaked	H
And crooned some snatch of devil's verse	K
While now and then her cat she stroked	H
And in a wink all capped and cloaked	H
Flew back to Dogtown with a curse	K

Madison Julius Cawein

Gammer Gaffer - A Ballad Of Gloucester Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Gammer Gaffer - A Ballad Of Gloucester poem by Madison Julius Cawein

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets