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 K2QK2Q

Just the place for a Snark the Bellman criedA
As he landed his crew with careB
Supporting each man on the top of the tideA
By a finger entwined in his hairB
Just the place for a Snark I have said it twiceC
That alone should encourage the crewD
Just the place for a Snark I have said it thriceC
What I tell you three times is trueD
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The crew was complete it included a BootsE
A maker of Bonnets and HoodsF
A Barrister brought to arrange their disputesE
And a Broker to value their goodsF
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A Billiard marker whose skill was immenseG
Might perhaps have won more than his shareB
But a Banker engaged at enormous expenseG
Had the whole of their cash in his careB
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There was also a Beaver that paced on the deckH
Or would sit making lace in the bowI
And had often the Bellman said saved them from wreckH
Though none of the sailors knew howI
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There was one who was famed for the number of thingsJ
He forgot when he entered the shipK
His umbrella his watch all his jewels and ringsJ
And the clothes he had bought for the tripK
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He had forty two boxes all carefully packedL
With his name painted clearly on eachM
But since he omitted to mention the factL
They were all left behind on the beachM
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The loss of his clothes hardly mattered becauseN
He had seven coats on when he cameO
With three pair of boots but the worst of is wasP
He had wholly forgotten his nameO
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He would answer to Hi or to any loud cryQ
Such as Fry me or Fritter my wigR
To What you may call um or What was his nameO
But especially Thing um a jigR
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While for those who preferred a more forcible wordS
He had different names from theseT
His intimate friends called him Candle endsU
And his enemies Toasted cheeseT
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His form is ungainly his intellect smallV
So the Bellman would often remarkW
But his courage is perfect And that after allV
Is the thing that one needs with a SnarkW
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He would joke with hyaenas returning their stareB
With an impudent wag of the headX
And he once went a walk paw in paw with a bearB
Just to keep up its spirits he saidX
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He came as a Baker but owned when too lateY
And it drove the poor Bellman half madZ
He could only bake Bridecake for which I may stateY
No materials were to be hadZ
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The last of the crew needs especial remarkW
Though he looked an incredible dunceT
He had just one idea but that one being SnarkW
The good Bellman engaged him at onceT
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He came as a Butcher but gravely declaredA2
When the ship had been sailing a weekW
He could only kill Beavers The Bellman looked scaredA2
And was almost too frightened to speakW
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But at length he explained in a tremulous toneB2
There was only one Beaver on boardC2
And that was a tame one he had of his ownB2
Whose death would be deeply deploredC2
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The Beaver who happened to hear the remarkW
Protested with tears in its eyesT
That not even the rapture of hunting the SnarkW
Could atone for that dismal surpriseT
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It strongly advised that the Butcher should beD2
Conveyed in a separate shipK
But the Bellman declared that would never agreeD2
With the plans he had made for the tripK
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Navigation was always a difficult artE2
Though with only one ship and one bellF2
And he feared he must really decline for his partE2
Undertaking another as wellF2
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The Beaver's best course was no doubt to procureG2
A second hand dagger proof coatH2
So the baker advised it and next to insureG2
Its life in some Office of noteH2
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This the Baker suggested and offered for hireI2
On moderate terms or for saleJ2
Two excellent Policies one Against FireI2
And one Against Damage From HailJ2
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Yet still ever after that sorrowful dayK2
Whenever the Butcher was byQ
The Beaver kept looking the opposite wayK2
And appeared unaccountably shyQ

Lewis Carroll



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