Waiting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEEC DFCDFGGC DHCDHIIC JKCAKLLC| The sun has slipped his tether | A |
| And galloped down the west | B |
| Oh it's weary weary waiting love | C |
| The little bird is sleeping | D |
| In the softness of its nest | B |
| Night follows day day follows dawn | E |
| And so the time has come and gone | E |
| And it's weary weary waiting love | C |
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| The cruel wind is rising | D |
| With a whistle and a wail | F |
| And it's weary weary waiting love | C |
| My eyes are seaward straining | D |
| For the coming of a sail | F |
| But void the sea and void the beach | G |
| Far and beyond where gaze can reach | G |
| And it's weary weary waiting love | C |
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| I heard the bell buoy ringing | D |
| How long ago it seems | H |
| Oh it's weary weary waiting love | C |
| And ever still its knelling | D |
| Crashes in upon my dreams | H |
| The banns were read my frock was sewn | I |
| Since then two seasons' winds have blown | I |
| And it's weary weary waiting love | C |
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| The stretches of the ocean | J |
| Are bare and bleak to day | K |
| Oh it's weary weary waiting love | C |
| My eyes are growing dimmer | A |
| Is it tears or age or spray | K |
| But I will stay till you come home | L |
| Strange ships come in across the foam | L |
| But it's weary weary waiting love | C |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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