Harp Song Of The Dane Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG AAA| What is a woman that you forsake her | A |
| And the hearth fire and the home acre | A |
| To go with the old grey Widow maker | A |
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| She has no house to lay a guest in | B |
| But one chill bed for all to rest in | B |
| That the pale suns and the stray bergs nest in | B |
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| She has no strong white arms to fold you | C |
| But the ten times fingering weed to hold you | C |
| Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you | C |
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| Yet when the signs of summer thicken | D |
| And the ice breaks and the birch buds quicken | D |
| Yearly you turn from our side and sicken | D |
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| Sicken again for the shouts and the slaughters | E |
| You steal away to the lapping waters | E |
| And look at your ship in her winter quarters | E |
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| You forget our mirth and talk at the tables | F |
| The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables | F |
| To pitch her sides and go over her cables | F |
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| Then you drive out where the storm clouds swallow | G |
| And the sound of your oar blades falling hollow | G |
| Is all we have left through the months to follow | G |
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| Ah what is Woman that you forsake her | A |
| And the hearth fire and the home acre | A |
| To go with the old grey Widow maker | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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