The Englishman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBE EBF GBH ICF JBK LBM NBOB PBLB EBQB RSMS TUVU FWEX YBEB GCBC CHBH ZBA2 EBB2B| I met a sailor in the woods | A |
| A silver ring wore he | B |
| His hair hung black his eyes shone blue | C |
| And thus he said to me | B |
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| 'What country say of this round earth | D |
| What shore of what salt sea | B |
| Be this my son I wander in | E |
| And looks so strange to me ' | - |
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| Says I 'O foreign sailorman | E |
| In England now you be | B |
| This is her wood and this her sky | F |
| And that her roaring sea ' | - |
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| He lifts his voice yet louder | G |
| 'What smell be this ' says he | B |
| 'My nose on the sharp morning air | H |
| Snuffs up so greedily ' | - |
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| Says I 'It is wild roses | I |
| Do smell so winsomely | C |
| And winy briar too ' says I | F |
| 'That in these thickets be ' | - |
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| 'And oh ' says he 'what leetle bird | J |
| Is singing in yon high tree | B |
| So every shrill and long drawn note | K |
| Like bubbles breaks in me ' | - |
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| Says I 'It is the mavis | L |
| That perches in the tree | B |
| And sings so shrill and sings so sweet | M |
| When dawn comes up the sea ' | - |
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| At which he fell a musing | N |
| And fixed his eye on me | B |
| As one alone 'twixt light and dark | O |
| A spirit thinks to see | B |
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| 'England ' he whispers soft and harsh | P |
| 'England ' repeated he | B |
| 'And briar and rose and mavis | L |
| A singing in yon high tree | B |
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| 'Ye speak me true my leetle son | E |
| So so it came to me | B |
| A drifting landwards on a spar | Q |
| And grey dawn on the sea | B |
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| 'Ay ay I could not be mistook | R |
| I knew them leafy trees | S |
| I knew that land so witcherie sweet | M |
| And that old noise of seas | S |
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| 'Though here I've sailed a score of years | T |
| And heard 'em dream or wake | U |
| Lap small and hollow 'gainst my cheek | V |
| On sand and coral break | U |
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| ' Yet now my leetle son says I | F |
| A drifting on the wave | W |
| That land I see so safe and green | E |
| Is England I believe | X |
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| ' And that there wood is English wood | Y |
| And this here cruel sea | B |
| The selfsame old blue ocean | E |
| Years gone remembers me | B |
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| A sitting with my bread and butter | G |
| Down ahind yon chitterin' mill | C |
| And this same Marinere that's me | B |
| Is that same leetle Will | C |
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| That very same wee leetle Will | C |
| Eating his bread and butter there | H |
| A looking on the broad blue sea | B |
| Betwixt his yaller hair | H |
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| 'And here be I my son throwed up | Z |
| Like corpses from the sea | B |
| Ships stars winds tempests pirates past | A2 |
| Yet leetle Will I be ' | - |
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| He said no more that sailorman | E |
| But in a reverie | B |
| Stared like the figure of a ship | B2 |
| With painted eyes to sea | B |
Walter De La Mare
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