The Sailor Boy To His Lass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FBGBHBFB IBDBJBAB KBLBMBNB OBPBQBRB SBTBGBUB VBWBXBYB ZBKBQBA2B B2BA2BC2BVB D2BE2BF2BD2B YBG2BSBH2B PBI2BWBF2B OBPBQBRB| I go away this blessed day | A |
| To sail across the sea MATILDA | B |
| My vessel starts for various parts | C |
| At twenty after three MATILDA | B |
| I hardly know where we may go | D |
| Or if it's near or far MATILDA | B |
| For CAPTAIN HYDE does not confide | E |
| In any 'fore mast tar MATILDA | B |
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| Beneath my ban that mystic man | F |
| Shall suffer COUTE QUI COUTE MATILDA | B |
| What right has he to keep from me | G |
| The Admiralty route MATILDA | B |
| Because forsooth I am a youth | H |
| Of common sailors' lot MATILDA | B |
| Am I a man on human plan | F |
| Designed or am I not MATILDA | B |
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| But there my lass we'll let that pass | I |
| With anxious love I burn MATILDA | B |
| I want to know if we shall go | D |
| To church when I return MATILDA | B |
| Your eyes are red you bow your head | J |
| It's pretty clear you thirst MATILDA | B |
| To name the day What's that you say | A |
| You'll see me further first MATILDA | B |
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| I can't mistake the signs you make | K |
| Although you barely speak MATILDA | B |
| Though pure and young you thrust your tongue | L |
| Right in your pretty cheek MATILDA | B |
| My dear I fear I hear you sneer | M |
| I do I'm sure I do MATILDA | B |
| With simple grace you make a face | N |
| Ejaculating Ugh MATILDA | B |
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| Oh pause to think before you drink | O |
| The dregs of Lethe's cup MATILDA | B |
| Remember do what I've gone through | P |
| Before you give me up MATILDA | B |
| Recall again the mental pain | Q |
| Of what I've had to do MATILDA | B |
| And be assured that I've endured | R |
| It all along of you MATILDA | B |
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| Do you forget my blithesome pet | S |
| How once with jealous rage MATILDA | B |
| I watched you walk and gaily talk | T |
| With some one thrice your age MATILDA | B |
| You squatted free upon his knee | G |
| A sight that made me sad MATILDA | B |
| You pinched his cheek with friendly tweak | U |
| Which almost drove me mad MATILDA | B |
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| I knew him not but hoped to spot | V |
| Some man you thought to wed MATILDA | B |
| I took a gun my darling one | W |
| And shot him through the head MATILDA | B |
| I'm made of stuff that's rough and gruff | X |
| Enough I own but ah MATILDA | B |
| It DID annoy your sailor boy | Y |
| To find it was your pa MATILDA | B |
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| I've passed a life of toil and strife | Z |
| And disappointments deep MATILDA | B |
| I've lain awake with dental ache | K |
| Until I fell asleep MATILDA | B |
| At times again I've missed a train | Q |
| Or p'rhaps run short of tin MATILDA | B |
| And worn a boot on corns that shoot | A2 |
| Or shaving cut my chin MATILDA | B |
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| But oh no trains no dental pains | B2 |
| Believe me when I say MATILDA | B |
| No corns that shoot no pinching boot | A2 |
| Upon a summer day MATILDA | B |
| It's my belief could cause such grief | C2 |
| As that I've suffered for MATILDA | B |
| My having shot in vital spot | V |
| Your old progenitor MATILDA | B |
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| Bethink you how I've kept the vow | D2 |
| I made one winter day MATILDA | B |
| That come what could I never would | E2 |
| Remain too long away MATILDA | B |
| And oh the crimes with which at times | F2 |
| I've charged my gentle mind MATILDA | B |
| To keep the vow I made and now | D2 |
| You treat me so unkind MATILDA | B |
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| For when at sea off Caribbee | Y |
| I felt my passion burn MATILDA | B |
| By passion egged I went and begged | G2 |
| The captain to return MATILDA | B |
| And when my pet I couldn't get | S |
| That captain to agree MATILDA | B |
| Right through a sort of open port | H2 |
| I pitched him in the sea MATILDA | B |
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| Remember too how all the crew | P |
| With indignation blind MATILDA | B |
| Distinctly swore they ne'er before | I2 |
| Had thought me so unkind MATILDA | B |
| And how they'd shun me one by one | W |
| An unforgiving group MATILDA | B |
| I stopped their howls and sulky scowls | F2 |
| By pizening their soup MATILDA | B |
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| So pause to think before you drink | O |
| The dregs of Lethe's cup MATILDA | B |
| Remember do what I've gone through | P |
| Before you give me up MATILDA | B |
| Recall again the mental pain | Q |
| Of what I've had to do MATILDA | B |
| And be assured that I've endured | R |
| It all along of you MATILDA | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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