A Night At Dago Tom's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| Oh yesterday I t'ink it was while cruisin' down the street | A |
| I met with Bill Hullo he says let's give the girls a treat | A |
| We'd red bandanas round our necks 'n' our shrouds new rattled down | B |
| So we filled a couple of Santy Cruz and cleared for Sailor Town | B |
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| We scooted south with a press of sail till we fetched to a caboose | C |
| The Sailor's Rest by Dago Tom alongside Paddy's Goose | C |
| Red curtains to the windies ay 'n' white sand to the floor | D |
| And an old blind fiddler liltin' the tune of Lowlands No More | D |
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| He played the Shaking of the Sheets 'n' the couples did advance | E |
| Bowing stamping curtsying in the shuffling of the dance | E |
| The old floor rocked and quivered so it struck beholders dumb | F |
| 'N' afterwards there was sweet songs 'n' good Jamaikey rum | F |
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| 'N' there was many a merry yarn of many a merry spree | G |
| Aboard the ships with royals set a sailing on the sea | G |
| Yarns of the hooker Spindrift her as had the clipper bow | H |
| There ain't no ships says Bill to me like that there hooker now | H |
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| When the old blind fiddler played the tune of Pipe the Watch Below | I |
| The skew eyed landlord dowsed the glim and bade us stamp 'n' go | I |
| 'N' we linked it home did Bill 'n' I adown the scattered streets | J |
| Until we fetched to Land o' Nod atween the linen sheets | J |
John Masefield
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