The Sailor's Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FEF G DHDHII JKLKMM EDEDN| ONE morning raw it was and wet | A |
| A foggy day in winter time | B |
| A Woman on the road I met | A |
| Not old though something past her prime | B |
| Majestic in her person tall and straight | C |
| And like a Roman matron's was her mien and gait | C |
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| The ancient spirit is not dead | D |
| Old times thought I are breathing there | E |
| Proud was I that my country bred | D |
| Such strength a dignity so fair | E |
| She begged an alms like one in poor estate | C |
| I looked at her again nor did my pride abate | C |
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| When from these lofty thoughts I woke | F |
| 'What is it ' said I 'that you bear | E |
| Beneath the covert of your Cloak | F |
| Protected from this cold damp air ' | - |
| She anwered soon as she the question heard | G |
| 'A simple burthen Sir a little Singing bird ' | - |
| - | |
| And thus continuing she said | D |
| 'I had a Son who many a day | H |
| Sailed on the seas but he is dead | D |
| In Denmark he was cast away | H |
| And I have travelled weary miles to see | I |
| If aught which he had owned might still remain for me | I |
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| The bird and cage they both were his | J |
| 'Twas my Son's bird and neat and trim | K |
| He kept it many voyages | L |
| The singing bird had gone with him | K |
| When last he sailed he left the bird behind | M |
| From bodings as might be that hung upon his mind | M |
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| He to a fellow lodger's care | E |
| Had left it to be watched and fed | D |
| And pipe its song in safety there | E |
| I found it when my Son was dead | D |
| And now God help me for my little wit | N |
| I bear it with me Sir he took so much delight in it ' | - |
William Wordsworth
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