Song Of A Mad Girl, Whose Lover Has Died At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCACDEFBGHBFDBF EBHGIJKKKLMLNIOJPPMI QQRSJRRRSJSJ

Under the green white blue of this and that and the otherA
That and the other and that and the other for ever and everA
Under the up and down and the swaying ships swingswongingB
There they flung him to sleep who will never come back to my longingB
The Father comes back to his child and the son comes back to his MotherA
But neither by land or seaC
Will he ever come back to meC
Never never neverA
Will he come back to meC
All day I run by the Cliff all night I stand in the sandD
All day I furrow and burrow the holmes and the heightsE
But whether by night or dayF
There's never a trace or a trackB
Never a word or a breathG
In the swill and the swoop and the flash and the foam and the windH
Never a fleck or a speckB
Coming coming my wayF
The mew comes back to the strand and the ship comes back to the landD
But he will never come backB
To all the prayers that I pray thro' the scorching black of the dayF
And the freezing black of the nightsE
Never never come backB
To the ear that harks itself deaf and the eye that strains itself blindH
And the heart that is starving to deathG
He was chill and they threw him to coldI
He was dead and they threw him to drownJ
He was weary and wanted restK
They should have laid him on my breastK
He would have slept on my breastK
But they threw him into the boiling boil and bubbleL
The wheel and the whirl the driff and the draffM
Of the everlasting troubleL
I swear to you he was mine I swear to you he was my ownN
Madam if I may make so boldI
Do you know what the dead men doO
In the black and blue in the green and brownJ
Deep deep you think they sleepP
Where the mermen moan and the mermaids weepP
Ah ah you make me laughM
I'm not yet twenty years oldI
But lean your earQ
And you shall hearQ
A little thing that I knowR
Up and up they come to the topS
Down and down they go downJ
To and fro the finny fish goR
But slow and slow and so and soR
Low over high high under lowR
Up and up they come to the topS
Down and down they go downJ
When the sun comes up they come to the topS
When the sun sinks they go downJ

Sydney Thompson Dobell



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