Colonel Martin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGHB A EIJKLJM B A MNMNOPQPB MRSJT QB TMUMMJUJB VWXWUYK B ZA2DJB2MUMB C2 D2E2BQBI | A |
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The Colonel went out sailing | B |
He spoke with Turk and Jew | C |
With Christian and with Infidel | D |
For all tongues he knew | C |
'O what's a wifeless man ' said he | E |
And he came sailing home | F |
He rose the latch and went upstairs | G |
And found an empty room | H |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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II | A |
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'I kept her much in the country | E |
And she was much alone | I |
And though she may be there ' he said | J |
'She may be in the town | K |
She may be all alone there | L |
For who can say ' he said | J |
'I think that I shall find her | M |
In a young man's bed ' | - |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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III | A |
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The Colonel met a pedlar | M |
Agreed their clothes to swop | N |
And bought the grandest jewelry | M |
In a Galway shop | N |
Instead of thread and needle | O |
put jewelry in the pack | P |
Bound a thong about his hand | Q |
Hitched it on his back | P |
The Colonel wcnt out sailing | B |
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IV | - |
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The Colonel knocked on the rich man's door | M |
'I am sorry ' said the maid | R |
'My mistress cannot see these things | S |
But she is still abed | J |
And never have I looked upon | T |
Jewelry so grand ' | - |
'Take all to your mistress ' | - |
And he laid them on her hand | Q |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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V | - |
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And he went in and she went on | T |
And both climbed up the stair | M |
And O he was a clever man | U |
For he his slippers wore | M |
And when they came to the top stair | M |
He ran on ahead | J |
His wife he found and the rich man | U |
In the comfort of a bed | J |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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VI | - |
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The Judge at the Assize Court | V |
When he heard that story told | W |
Awarded him for damages | X |
Three kegs of gold | W |
The Colonel said to Tom his man | U |
'Harness an ass and cart | Y |
Carry the gold about the town | K |
Throw it in every patt ' | - |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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VII | - |
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And there at all street corners | Z |
A man with a pistol stood | A2 |
And the rich man had paid them well | D |
To shoot the Colonel dead | J |
But they threw down their pistols | B2 |
And all men heard them swear | M |
That they could never shoot a man | U |
Did all that for the poor | M |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
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VIII | - |
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'And did you keep no gold Tom | C2 |
You had three kegs ' said he | - |
'I never thought of that Sir ' | - |
'Then want before you die ' | - |
And want he did for my own grand dad | D2 |
Saw the story's end | E2 |
And Tom make out a living | B |
From the seaweed on the strand | Q |
The Colonel went out sailing | B |
William Butler Yeats
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