Robin, The Sea-boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEDEFFGHHGIIJJ KK JJCCLLMMNNOOJJJJPPCC JJQQRRJJSSJJJJ TTBBJJUUJJUUDDUUUUUU VVUUUUWWXY ZA2CCC

Ho ruddy cheeked boys and curly maidsA
Who deftly ply your pails and spadesA
All you who sturdily take your standB
On your pebble buttressed forts of sandB
And thence defyC
With a fearless eyeC
And a burst of rollicking high pitched laughterD
The stealthy trickling waves that lap youE
And the crested breakers that tumble afterD
To souse and batter you sting and sap youE
All you roll about rackety little folkF
Down again up again not a bit brittle folkF
Attend attendG
And let each girl and boyH
Join in a loud AhoyH
For lo he comes your tricksy little friendG
From the clear caverns of his crystal homeI
Beyond the tossing ridges of the foamI
Planner of sandy romps and wet delightsJ
Robin the Sea boy prince of ocean spritesJ
Is come is come to lead you in your playK
And fill your hearts with mirth and jocund sport to dayK
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What Can't you see him There he standsJ
On a sheer rock and lifts his handsJ
A little lad not three feet highC
With dancing mischief in his eyeC
His body gleams against the lightL
A clear cut shape of dazzling whiteL
Set off and topped by golden hairM
That streams and tosses in the airM
A moment poised he dares the leapN
And cuts the wind and cleaves the deepN
Down through the emerald vaults self hurledO
That roof the sea god's awful worldO
Another moment sees him riseJ
And beat the salt spray from his eyesJ
He breasts the waves he spurns their blowsJ
Then like a rocket up he goesJ
Up up to where the gusty windP
With all its wrath is left behindP
Still up he soars and high and highC
A speck of light that dots the skyC
Then watch him as he slowly droopsJ
Where the great sea birds wheel their troopsJ
Three broad winged gulls himself their lordQ
He hitches to a silken cordQ
Bits them and bridles them with skillR
And bids them draw him where he willR
Above the tumult of the shoresJ
He floats he stoops he darts he soarsJ
From near and far he calls the restS
And waves them forward for a questS
Then straight without a check he speedsJ
Across the azure tracts and leadsJ
With apt reproof and cheering wordsJ
As on a chase his cry of birdsJ
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And when he has finished his airy funT
And all his flights and his swoops are doneT
He will drop to the shore and lend a handB
In building a castle of weed and sandB
He will cover with flints its frowning faceJ
To keep the tide in its proper placeJ
And the waves shall employ their utmost damp artU
In vain to abolish your moated rampartU
And nobody's nurse shall make a fussJ
As is far too often the case with usJ
Instead of the usual how de doU
She will give us praise when we get wet throughU
In fact she will smile and think it betterD
When we get as wet as we like and wetterD
As for eating too much you can safely risk itU
With chocolate lollipop cake and biscuitU
And your mother will revel with high delightU
In the state of her own one's appetiteU
Great shells there shall be of a rainbow hueU
To be found and gathered by me and youU
Wonderful nets for the joy of making 'emV
And scores of shrimps for the trouble of taking 'emV
In fact it isn't half bad now is itU
When Robin the Sea boy pays his visitU
And perhaps he will tire of his shape and habitU
And change and turn to a frisky rabbitU
A plump young gadabout cheerful fellowW
With a twitching nose and a coat of yellowW
And never the smallest trace of fearX
From his flashing scut to his flattened earY
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But lo there's a hint of coming rainZ
So presto Robin is back againA2
He lifts his head and he cocks his eyeC
And waves his hand and prepares to flyC
Good bye Robin good bye good byeC

R. C. Lehmann



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