Song Of A Mad Girl, Whose Lover Has Died At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCACDEFBGHBFDBF EBHGIJKKKLMLNIOJPPMI QQRSJRRRSJSJUnder the green white blue of this and that and the other | A |
That and the other and that and the other for ever and ever | A |
Under the up and down and the swaying ships swingswonging | B |
There they flung him to sleep who will never come back to my longing | B |
The Father comes back to his child and the son comes back to his Mother | A |
But neither by land or sea | C |
Will he ever come back to me | C |
Never never never | A |
Will he come back to me | C |
All day I run by the Cliff all night I stand in the sand | D |
All day I furrow and burrow the holmes and the heights | E |
But whether by night or day | F |
There's never a trace or a track | B |
Never a word or a breath | G |
In the swill and the swoop and the flash and the foam and the wind | H |
Never a fleck or a speck | B |
Coming coming my way | F |
The mew comes back to the strand and the ship comes back to the land | D |
But he will never come back | B |
To all the prayers that I pray thro' the scorching black of the day | F |
And the freezing black of the nights | E |
Never never come back | B |
To the ear that harks itself deaf and the eye that strains itself blind | H |
And the heart that is starving to death | G |
He was chill and they threw him to cold | I |
He was dead and they threw him to drown | J |
He was weary and wanted rest | K |
They should have laid him on my breast | K |
He would have slept on my breast | K |
But they threw him into the boiling boil and bubble | L |
The wheel and the whirl the driff and the draff | M |
Of the everlasting trouble | L |
I swear to you he was mine I swear to you he was my own | N |
Madam if I may make so bold | I |
Do you know what the dead men do | O |
In the black and blue in the green and brown | J |
Deep deep you think they sleep | P |
Where the mermen moan and the mermaids weep | P |
Ah ah you make me laugh | M |
I'm not yet twenty years old | I |
But lean your ear | Q |
And you shall hear | Q |
A little thing that I know | R |
Up and up they come to the top | S |
Down and down they go down | J |
To and fro the finny fish go | R |
But slow and slow and so and so | R |
Low over high high under low | R |
Up and up they come to the top | S |
Down and down they go down | J |
When the sun comes up they come to the top | S |
When the sun sinks they go down | J |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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