The Big Black Trawler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DBDC EBEC FB C DB C| THE very best ship that ever I knew | A |
| Ah way O to me O | B |
| Was a big black trawler with a deep sea crew | A |
| Sing my bullies let the bullgine run | C |
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| There was one old devil with a broken nose | D |
| Ah way O to me O | B |
| He was four score years as I suppose | D |
| But sing my bullies let the bullgine run | C |
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| We was wrecked last March in a Polar storm | E |
| Ah way O to me O | B |
| And we asked the old cripple if his feet was warm | E |
| Sing my bullies let the bullgine run | C |
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| And the old old devil he was ninety at the most | F |
| Ah way O to me O | B |
| Roars ' Ay warm as a lickle piece of toast ' | - |
| So sing my bullies let the bullgine run | C |
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| ' For I soaked my sea boots and my dungarees | D |
| Ah way O to me O | B |
| In the good salt water that the Lord don't freeze ' | - |
| Oh sing my bullies let the bullgine run | C |
Alfred Noyes
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