The Sea-captain's Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHBHGIBI JKLKMNBO PPQPRBSB EJRJTURU| Put the crown of your love on my forehead | A |
| Its sweet links clasped with a kiss | B |
| And all the great monarchs of England | C |
| Never wore such a gem as this | B |
| Give me your hand little maiden | D |
| That sceptre so pearly white | E |
| And I'll envy not the kingliest wand | F |
| That ever waved in might | E |
| - | |
| I know 'tis like asking a morning cloud | G |
| With a grim old mountain to stay | H |
| But your love would soften its ruggedness | B |
| And melt its roughness away | H |
| I have seen a delicate rosy cloud | G |
| A rough gray cliff enfold | I |
| Till his heart was warmed by its loveliness | B |
| And his brow was tinged with its gold | I |
| - | |
| Oh poor and mean does my life show | J |
| Compared with the beauty of thine | K |
| Like a diamond embedded in granite | L |
| Your life would be set in mine | K |
| But a faithful love should guard you | M |
| And shelter you from life's storm | N |
| The rock must be shivered to atoms | B |
| Ere its treasure should come to harm | O |
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| How your sweet face has shone on me | P |
| From the tropics' midnight sea | P |
| When the sailors slept and I kept watch | Q |
| Alone with my God and thee | P |
| I know your heart is relenting | R |
| The tender look in your eyes | B |
| Seems like that sky's soft splendor | S |
| When the sun was beginning to rise | B |
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| You need not veil their glorious light | E |
| With your eyelids' cloud of snow | J |
| A tell tale bird with a crimson wing | R |
| On your cheek flies to and fro | J |
| And whispers to me such blissful hope | T |
| That my foolish tears will start | U |
| Ah little bird your fluttering wing | R |
| Is folded on my heart | U |
Marietta Holley
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