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The ballad is written in a rhyme pattern
b
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Imagery:
"blude-reid wine"
"When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud,
And gurly grew the sea." - web version
Alliteration
"And many was the feather-bed
That fluttered on the foam" - web version
Tone is serious and dark, fear of the sea is emphasized and captures the danger of sailing in bad weather.
"Spens’ is, first and foremost, a disaster story—a plot that has inspired and attracted audiences for centuries"
Have owre, have owre to Aberdour,
It's fiftie fadom deip:
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence
Wi' the Scots lords at his feit.
"Most sea narratives, even if they do not involve a shipwreck or some sort
of tragedy, emphasise the sea’s power and indifference"
"If ‘Spens’ did not directly inspire later ocean narratives—either in poetry or prose— it is surely an early source to this vast flow, and provides clues to demonstrate the elements that remain so powerful and enduring."
"That the mariner hero is the most common theme for poets inspired by
‘Spens’ may be ascribed to the power that the figure of the skipper holds, not
just to those ashore, but to sailors at sea"
Ex Nihilo : Latin
meaning "creation out of nothing"
The theory that ideas are not created, but rather copied. Because of the origin of Sir Patrick Spence we can say that so many maritime novels have used the story to amplify their own
Foreshadowing:
"The King sits in Dunfermline toune,
Drinking the blude-reid wine;
O quhar will I get guid sailor,
To sail this schip of mine?"
"The first line that Sir Patrick red,
A loud lauch lauched he;
The next line that Sir Patrick red,
The teir blinded his ee."
"Late late yestreen I saw the new moone Wi' the auld moone in hir arme; And I feir, my deir master, That we will com to harme."
death
Oedipus
Bad Luck
roughly 530 miles
Scotland to Norway