On The Seas And Far Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE EEEE FGHHIIEEEEEE JJKKLLEEEEEE MMNNOOEEEEEE| HOW can my poor heart be glad | A |
| When absent from my sailor lad | A |
| How can I the thought forego | B |
| He's on the seas to meet the foe | B |
| Let me wander let me rove | C |
| Still my heart is with my love | D |
| Nightly dreams and thoughts by day | E |
| Are with him that's far away | E |
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| Chorus On the seas and far away | E |
| On stormy seas and far away | E |
| Nightly dreams and thoughts by day | E |
| Are aye with him that's far away | E |
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| When in summer noon I faint | F |
| As weary flocks around me pant | G |
| Haply in this scorching sun | H |
| My sailor's thund'ring at his gun | H |
| Bullets spare my only joy | I |
| Bullets spare my darling boy | I |
| Fate do with me what you may | E |
| Spare but him that's far away | E |
| On the seas and far away | E |
| On stormy seas and far away | E |
| Fate do with me what you may | E |
| Spare but him that's far away | E |
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| At the starless midnight hour | J |
| When Winter rules with boundless power | J |
| As the storms the forests tear | K |
| And thunders rend the howling air | K |
| Listening to the doubling roar | L |
| Surging on the rocky shore | L |
| All I can I weep and pray | E |
| For his weal that's far away | E |
| On the seas and far away | E |
| On stormy seas and far away | E |
| All I can I weep and pray | E |
| For his weal that's far away | E |
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| Peace thy olive wand extend | M |
| And bid wild War his ravage end | M |
| Man with brother Man to meet | N |
| And as a brother kindly greet | N |
| Then may heav'n with prosperous gales | O |
| Fill my sailor's welcome sails | O |
| To my arms their charge convey | E |
| My dear lad that's far away | E |
| On the seas and far away | E |
| On stormy seas and far away | E |
| To my arms their charge convey | E |
| My dear lad that's far away | E |
Robert Burns
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