The Sailor's Return
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
This morn I lay a-dreaming,
This morn, this merry morn,
When the cock crew shrill from over the hill,
I heard a bugle horn.
And thro' the dream I was dreaming,
There sighed the sigh of the sea,
And thro' the dream I was dreaming,
This voice came singing to me.
'High over the breakers,
Low under the lee,
Sing ho
The billow,
And the lash of the rolling sea!
'Boat, boat, to the billow,
Boat, boat, to the lee!
Love on thy pillow,
Art thou dreaming of me?
'Billow, billow, breaking,
Land us low on the lee!
For sleeping or waking,
Sweet love, I am coming to thee!
'High, high, o'er the breakers,
Low, low, on the lee,
Sing ho!
The billow
That brings me back to thee!'
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | abxb AcAc dcEEc ecec acac dcEEc |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5 |
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