King Henry Vii And The Shipwrights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFAA GGCC HHII JJKL MNOO GGAA PPAA QQOO OOOOHarry our King in England from London town is gone | A |
And comen to Hamull on the Hoke in the Countie of Suthampton | A |
For there lay the Mary of the Tower his ship of war so strong | B |
And he would discover certaynely if his shipwrights did him wrong | B |
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He told not none of his setting forth nor yet where he would go | C |
But only my Lord of Arundel and meanly did he show | C |
In an old jerkin and patched hose that no man might him mark | D |
With his frieze hood and cloak above he looked like any clerk | E |
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He was at Hamull on the Hoke about the hour of the tide | F |
And saw the Mary haled into dock the winter to abide | F |
With all her tackle and habilaments which are the King his own | A |
But then ran on his false shipwrights and stripped her to the bone | A |
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They heaved the main mast overboard that was of a trusty tree | G |
And they wrote down it was spent and lost by force of weather at sea | G |
But they sawen it into planks and strakes as far as it might go | C |
To maken beds for their own wives and little children also | C |
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There was a knave called Slingawai he crope beneath the deck | H |
Crying Good felawes come and see The ship is nigh a wreck | H |
For the storm that took our tall main mast it blew so fierce and fell | I |
Alack it hath taken the kettles and pans and this brass pott as well | I |
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With that he set the pott on his head and hied him up the hatch | J |
While all the shipwrights ran below to find what they might snatch | J |
All except Bob Brygandyne and he was a yeoman good | K |
He caught Slingawai round the waist and threw him on to the mud | L |
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I have taken plank and rope and nail without the King his leave | M |
After the custom of Portesmouth but I will not suffer a thief | N |
Nay never lift up thy hand at me there's no clean hands in the trade | O |
Steal in measure quo' Brygandyne There's measure in all things made | O |
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Gramercy yeoman said our King Thy council liketh me | G |
And he pulled a whistle out of his neck and whistled whistles three | G |
Then came my Lord of Arundel pricking across the down | A |
And behind him the Mayor and Burgesses of merry Suthampton town | A |
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They drew the naughty shipwrights up with the kettles in their hands | P |
And bound them round the forecastle to wait the King's commands | P |
But Sith ye have made your beds said the King ye needs must lie thereon | A |
For the sake of your wives and little ones felawes get you gone | A |
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When they had beaten Slingawai out of his own lips | Q |
Our King appointed Brygandyne to be Clerk of all his ships | Q |
Nay never lift up thy hands to me there's no clean hands in the trade | O |
But steal in measure said Harry our King There's measure in all things made | O |
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God speed the Mary of the Tower the Sovereign and Grace Dieu | O |
The Sweepstakes and the Mary Fortune and the Henry of Bristol too | O |
All tall ships that sail on the sea or in our harbours stand | O |
That they may keep measure with Harry our King and peace in Engeland | O |
Rudyard Kipling
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