Frankie's Trade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EECD FFGH IIJH KKJH CCLH MMNH CCGH OOPH QQGH RBRSTD| Old Horn to All Atlantic said | A |
| A hay O To me O | B |
| quot Now where did Frankie learn his trade | C |
| For he ran me down with a three reef mains'I quot | C |
| All round the Horn | D |
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| Atlantic answered quot Not from me | E |
| You'd better ask the cold North Sea | E |
| For he ran me down under all plain canvas quot | C |
| All round the Horn | D |
| - | |
| The North Sea answered quot He's my man | F |
| For he came to me when he began | F |
| Frankie Drake in an open coaster | G |
| All round the Sands | H |
| - | |
| quot I caught him young and I used him sore | I |
| So you never shall startle Frankie more | I |
| Without capsizing Earth and her waters | J |
| All round the Sands | H |
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| quot I did not favour him at all | K |
| I made him pull and I made him haul | K |
| And stand his trick with the common sailors | J |
| All round the Sands | H |
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| quot I froze him stiff and I fogged him blind | C |
| And kicked him home with his road to find | C |
| By what he could see in a three day snowy storm | L |
| All round the Sands | H |
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| quot I learned him his trade o' winter nights | M |
| 'Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights | M |
| On a five knot tide with the forts a firing | N |
| All round the Sands | H |
| - | |
| quot Before his beard began to shoot | C |
| I showed him the length of the Spaniard's foot | C |
| And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later | G |
| All round the Sands | H |
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| quot If there's a risk which you can make | O |
| That's worse than he was used to take | O |
| Nigh every week in the way of his business | P |
| All round the Sands | H |
| - | |
| quot If there's a trick that you can try | Q |
| Which he hasn't met in time gone by | Q |
| Not once or twice but ten times over | G |
| All round the Sands | H |
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| quot If you can teach him aught that's new | R |
| A hay O To me O | B |
| I'll give you Bruges and Niewport too | R |
| And the ten tall churches that stand between | S |
| Storm along my gallant Captains | T |
| All round the Horn | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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