The Sailor's Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCB DD DEED FF CGGC H| O whence do you come | A |
| Figure in the night fog that chills me numb | A |
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| I come to you across from my house up there | B |
| And I don't mind the brine mist clinging to me | C |
| That blows from the quay | C |
| For I heard him in my chamber and thought you unaware | B |
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| But what did you hear | D |
| That brought you blindly knocking in this middle watch so drear | D |
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| My sailor son's voice as 'twere calling at your door | D |
| And I don't mind my bare feet clammy on the stones | E |
| And the blight to my bones | E |
| For he only knows of THIS house I lived in before | D |
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| Nobody's nigh | F |
| Woman like a skeleton with socket sunk eye | F |
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| Ah nobody's nigh And my life is drearisome | C |
| And this is the old home we loved in many a day | G |
| Before he went away | G |
| And the salt fog mops me And nobody's come | C |
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| From To Please his Wife | H |
Thomas Hardy
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