The Sailor's Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADAD EDFFD FDFD ADAD EDFF| This morn I lay a dreaming | A |
| This morn this merry morn | B |
| When the cock crew shrill from over the hill | C |
| I heard a bugle horn | B |
| - | |
| And thro' the dream I was dreaming | A |
| There sighed the sigh of the sea | D |
| And thro' the dream I was dreaming | A |
| This voice came singing to me | D |
| - | |
| 'High over the breakers | E |
| Low under the lee | D |
| Sing ho | F |
| The billow | F |
| And the lash of the rolling sea | D |
| - | |
| 'Boat boat to the billow | F |
| Boat boat to the lee | D |
| Love on thy pillow | F |
| Art thou dreaming of me | D |
| - | |
| 'Billow billow breaking | A |
| Land us low on the lee | D |
| For sleeping or waking | A |
| Sweet love I am coming to thee | D |
| - | |
| 'High high o'er the breakers | E |
| Low low on the lee | D |
| Sing ho | F |
| The billow | F |
| That brings me back to thee ' | - |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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