The Mermaid Of Margate.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Alas what perils do environ	A
That man who meddles with a siren Hudibrus	B
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On Margate beach where the sick one roams	B
And the sentimental reads	B
Where the maiden flirts and the widow comes	B
Like the ocean to cast her weeds	B
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Where urchins wander to pick up shells	B
And the Cit to spy at the ships	B
Like the water gala at Sadler's Wells	B
And the Chandler for watery dips	B
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There's a maiden sits by the ocean brim	C
As lovely and fair as sin	A
But woe deep water and woe to him	C
That she snareth like Peter Fin	A
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Her head is crowned with pretty sea wares	B
And her locks are golden loose	B
And seek to her feet like other folks' heirs	B
To stand of course in her shoes	B
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And all day long she combeth them well	D
With a sea shark's prickly jaw	E
And her mouth is just like a rose lipped shell	D
The fairest that man e'er saw	E
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And the Fishmonger humble as love may be	F
Hath planted his seat by her side	G
Good even fair maid Is thy lover at sea	F
To make thee so watch the tide	G
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She turned about with her pearly brows	B
And clasped him by the hand	H
Come love with me I've a bonny house	B
On the golden Goodwin sand	H
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And then she gave him a siren kiss	B
No honeycomb e'er was sweeter	I
Poor wretch how little he dreamt for this	B
That Peter should be salt Peter	I
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And away with her prize to the wave she leapt	J
Not walking as damsels do	K
With toe and heel as she ought to have stept	K
But she hopped like a Kangaroo	K
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One plunge and then the victim was blind	K
Whilst they galloped across the tide	K
At last on the bank he waked in his mind	K
And the Beauty was by his side	K
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One half on the sand and half in the sea	F
But his hair began to stiffen	A
For when he looked where her feet should be	F
She had no more feet than Miss Biffen	A
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But a scaly tail of a dolphin's growth	L
In the dabbling brine did soak	M
At last she opened her pearly mouth	N
Like an oyster and thus she spoke	M
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You crimpt my father who was a skate	K
And my sister you sold a maid	K
So here remain for a fish'ry fate	K
For lost you are and betrayed	K
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And away she went with a sea gull's scream	O
And a splash of her saucy tail	P
In a moment he lost the silvery gleam	O
That shone on her splended mail	P
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The sun went down with a blood red flame	Q
And the sky grew cloudy and black	R
And the tumbling billows like leap frog came	Q
Each over the other's back	R
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Ah me it had been a beautiful scene	A
With the safe terra firma round	K
But the green water hillocks all seem'd to him	C
Like those in a churchyard ground	K
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And Christians love in the turf to lie	S
Not in watery graves to be	F
Nay the very fishes will sooner die	S
On the land than in the sea	F
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And whilst he stood the watery strife	T
Encroached on every hand	K
And the ground decreased his moments of life	T
Seemed measured like Time's by sand	K
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And still the waters foamed in like ale	P
In front and on either flank	U
He knew that Goodwin and Co must fail	P
There was such a run on the bank	U
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A little more and a little more	V
The surges came tumbling in	A
He sang the evening hymn twice o'er	I
And thought of every sin	A
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Each flounder and plaice lay cold at his heart	K
As cold as his marble slab	W
And he thought he felt in every part	K
The pincers of scalded crab	W
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The squealing lobsters that he had boiled	K
And the little potted shrimps	F
All the horny prawns he had ever spoiled	K
Gnawed into his soul like imps	F
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And the billows were wandering to and fro	X
And the glorious sun was sunk	Y
And Day getting black in the face as though	X
Of the nightshade she had drunk	Y
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Had there been but a smuggler's cargo adrift	K
One tub or keg to be seen	A
It might have given his spirits a lift	K
Or an anker where Hope might lean	A
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But there was not a box or a beam afloat	K
To raft him from that sad place	F
Not a skiff not a yawl or a mackerel boat	K
Nor a smack upon Neptune's face	F
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At last his lingering hopes to buoy	F
He saw a sail and a mast	K
And called Ahoy but it was not a hoy	Z
And so the vessel went past	K
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And with saucy wing that flapped in his face	F
The wild bird about him flew	K
With a shrilly scream that twitted his case	F
Why thou art a sea gull too	K
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And lo the tide was over his feet	K
Oh his heart began to freeze	F
And slowly to pulse in another beat	K
The wave was up to his knees	F
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He was deafened amidst the mountain tops	F
And the salt spray blinded his eyes	F
And washed away the other salt drops	F
That grief had caused to arise	F
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But just as his body was all afloat	K
And the surges above him broke	M
He was saved from the hungry deep by a boat	K
Of Deal but builded of oak	M
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The skipper gave him a dram as he lay	A2
And chafed his shivering skin	A
And the Angel returned that was flying away	A2
With the spirit of Peter Fin	A

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The Mermaid Of Margate.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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