Fit The Second ( Hunting Of The Snark ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPLL QLQL RLLL LSLS TUTU LALA SSSS SVSV SWSW XSVS LYLY DSDS LNLN SLSL LZLZ A2SA2S| The Bellman's Speech | A |
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| The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies | B |
| Such a carriage such ease and such grace | C |
| Such solemnity too One could see he was wise | B |
| The moment one looked in his face | C |
| He had bought a large map representing the sea | D |
| Without the least vestige of land | E |
| And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be | D |
| A map they could all understand | E |
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| What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators | F |
| Tropics Zones and Meridian Lines | G |
| So the Bellman would cry and the crew would reply | H |
| They are merely conventional signs | G |
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| Other maps are such shapes with their islands and capes | I |
| But we've got our brave Captain to thank | J |
| So the crew would protest that he's bought us the best | K |
| A perfect and absolute blank | J |
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| This was charming no doubt but they shortly found out | L |
| That the Captain they trusted so well | M |
| Had only one notion for crossing the ocean | N |
| And that was to tingle his bell | M |
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| He was thoughtful and grave but the orders he gave | O |
| Were enough to bewilder a crew | P |
| When he cried Steer to starboard but keep her head larboard | L |
| What on earth was the helmsman to do | L |
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| Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes | Q |
| A thing as the Bellman remarked | L |
| That frequently happens in tropical climes | Q |
| When a vessel is so to speak snarked | L |
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| But the principal failing occurred in the sailing | R |
| And the Bellman perplexed and distressed | L |
| Said he had hoped at least when the wind blew due East | L |
| That the ship would not travel due West | L |
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| But the danger was past they had landed at last | L |
| With their boxes portmanteaus and bags | S |
| Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view | L |
| Which consisted of chasms and crags | S |
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| The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low | T |
| And repeated in musical tone | U |
| Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe | T |
| But the crew would do nothing but groan | U |
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| He served out some grog with a liberal hand | L |
| And bade them sit down on the beach | A |
| And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand | L |
| As he stood and delivered his speech | A |
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| Friends Romans and countrymen lend me your ears | S |
| They were all of them fond of quotations | S |
| So they drank to his health and they gave him three cheers | S |
| While he served out additional rations | S |
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| We have sailed many months we have sailed many weeks | S |
| Four weeks to the month you may mark | V |
| But never as yet 'tis your Captain who speaks | S |
| Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark | V |
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| We have sailed many weeks we have sailed many days | S |
| Seven days to the week I allow | W |
| But a Snark on the which we might lovingly gaze | S |
| We have never beheld till now | W |
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| Come listen my men while I tell you again | X |
| The five unmistakable marks | S |
| By which you may know wheresoever you go | V |
| The warranted genuine Snarks | S |
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| Let us take them in order The first is the taste | L |
| Which is meagre and hollow but crisp | Y |
| Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist | L |
| With a flavour of Will o' the Wisp | Y |
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| Its habit of getting up late you'll agree | D |
| That it carries too far when I say | S |
| That it frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea | D |
| And dines on the following day | S |
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| The third is its slowness in taking a jest | L |
| Should you happen to venture on one | N |
| It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed | L |
| And it always looks grave at a pun | N |
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| The fourth is its fondness for bathing machines | S |
| Which it constantly carries about | L |
| And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes | S |
| A sentiment open to doubt | L |
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| The fifth is ambition It next will be right | L |
| To describe each particular batch | Z |
| Distinguishing those that have feathers and bite | L |
| From those that have whiskers and scratch | Z |
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| For although common Snarks do no manner of harm | A2 |
| Yet I feel it my duty to say | S |
| Some are Boojums The Bellman broke off in alarm | A2 |
| For the Baker had fainted away | S |
Lewis Carroll
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