Have You News Of My Boy Jack? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCBABBDBEBBEB| 'Have you news of my boy Jack ' | A |
| Not this tide | B |
| 'When d'you think that he'll come back ' | A |
| Not with this wind blowing and this tide | B |
| 'Has anyone else had word of him ' | A |
| Not this tide | B |
| For what is sunk will hardly swim | C |
| Not with this wind blowing and this tide | B |
| 'Oh dear what comfort can I find ' | A |
| None this tide | B |
| Nor any tide | B |
| Except he did not shame his kind | D |
| Not even with that wind blowing and that tide | B |
| Then hold your head up all the more | E |
| This tide | B |
| And every tide | B |
| Because he was the son you bore | E |
| And gave to that wind blowing and that tide | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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