Fit The First: The Landing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPO QROR STUT VWVW BXBX YZYZ WTWT A2WA2W B2C2B2C2 WTWT D2KD2K E2F2E2F2 G2H2G2H2 I2J2I2J2 K2QK2QJust the place for a Snark the Bellman cried | A |
As he landed his crew with care | B |
Supporting each man on the top of the tide | A |
By a finger entwined in his hair | B |
Just the place for a Snark I have said it twice | C |
That alone should encourage the crew | D |
Just the place for a Snark I have said it thrice | C |
What I tell you three times is true | D |
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The crew was complete it included a Boots | E |
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods | F |
A Barrister brought to arrange their disputes | E |
And a Broker to value their goods | F |
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A Billiard marker whose skill was immense | G |
Might perhaps have won more than his share | B |
But a Banker engaged at enormous expense | G |
Had the whole of their cash in his care | B |
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There was also a Beaver that paced on the deck | H |
Or would sit making lace in the bow | I |
And had often the Bellman said saved them from wreck | H |
Though none of the sailors knew how | I |
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There was one who was famed for the number of things | J |
He forgot when he entered the ship | K |
His umbrella his watch all his jewels and rings | J |
And the clothes he had bought for the trip | K |
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He had forty two boxes all carefully packed | L |
With his name painted clearly on each | M |
But since he omitted to mention the fact | L |
They were all left behind on the beach | M |
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The loss of his clothes hardly mattered because | N |
He had seven coats on when he came | O |
With three pair of boots but the worst of is was | P |
He had wholly forgotten his name | O |
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He would answer to Hi or to any loud cry | Q |
Such as Fry me or Fritter my wig | R |
To What you may call um or What was his name | O |
But especially Thing um a jig | R |
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While for those who preferred a more forcible word | S |
He had different names from these | T |
His intimate friends called him Candle ends | U |
And his enemies Toasted cheese | T |
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His form is ungainly his intellect small | V |
So the Bellman would often remark | W |
But his courage is perfect And that after all | V |
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark | W |
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He would joke with hyaenas returning their stare | B |
With an impudent wag of the head | X |
And he once went a walk paw in paw with a bear | B |
Just to keep up its spirits he said | X |
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He came as a Baker but owned when too late | Y |
And it drove the poor Bellman half mad | Z |
He could only bake Bridecake for which I may state | Y |
No materials were to be had | Z |
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The last of the crew needs especial remark | W |
Though he looked an incredible dunce | T |
He had just one idea but that one being Snark | W |
The good Bellman engaged him at once | T |
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He came as a Butcher but gravely declared | A2 |
When the ship had been sailing a week | W |
He could only kill Beavers The Bellman looked scared | A2 |
And was almost too frightened to speak | W |
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But at length he explained in a tremulous tone | B2 |
There was only one Beaver on board | C2 |
And that was a tame one he had of his own | B2 |
Whose death would be deeply deplored | C2 |
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The Beaver who happened to hear the remark | W |
Protested with tears in its eyes | T |
That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark | W |
Could atone for that dismal surprise | T |
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It strongly advised that the Butcher should be | D2 |
Conveyed in a separate ship | K |
But the Bellman declared that would never agree | D2 |
With the plans he had made for the trip | K |
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Navigation was always a difficult art | E2 |
Though with only one ship and one bell | F2 |
And he feared he must really decline for his part | E2 |
Undertaking another as well | F2 |
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The Beaver's best course was no doubt to procure | G2 |
A second hand dagger proof coat | H2 |
So the baker advised it and next to insure | G2 |
Its life in some Office of note | H2 |
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This the Baker suggested and offered for hire | I2 |
On moderate terms or for sale | J2 |
Two excellent Policies one Against Fire | I2 |
And one Against Damage From Hail | J2 |
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Yet still ever after that sorrowful day | K2 |
Whenever the Butcher was by | Q |
The Beaver kept looking the opposite way | K2 |
And appeared unaccountably shy | Q |
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