Need help with Sir Patrick Spens Please!!!?

Question

I read it twice and still didn't understand a word.

If you could, please help with these questions.

I need to know who are the speakers in stanzas one, two, five, and six.

Answer 1

In stanza one, the king is speaking.  He is wondering who he will get to sail the boat to escort his daughter, Margaret, to Norway for her marriage.

The King sits in Dunfermline town,

Drinking the blood-red wine;

"O where shall I get a skeely skipper

To sail this ship or mine?"

In stanza 2, "Then up and spake an elder knight" - one of his older knights was the speaker.

In stanza 5, there is no speaking, but Sir Patrick Spens is laughing and crying.  

The first line that Sir Patrick read,

A loud laugh laughed he;

The next line that Sir Patrick read,

The tear blinded his ee.

In stanza 6, Sir Patrick Spens is speaking.  He is wondering who referred him for this job, as it is very dangerous at that time of year.  You can tell that he's the one speaking since he was the last one referenced, in stanza 5.

"O who is this has done this deed,

Has told the King of me,

To send us out at this time of the year,

To sail upon the sea?