The Ballad Of Bolivar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDEFFCC GHGHIICC JKKKIICC LMNMOOCC PQPQRRRC SSQQ ABCC| Seven men from all the world back to Docks again | A |
| Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain | B |
| Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away | C |
| We that took the Bolivar out across the Bay | C |
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| We put out from Sunderland loaded down with rails | D |
| We put back to Sunderland 'cause our cargo shifted | E |
| We put out from Sunderland met the winter gales | D |
| Seven days and seven nights to the Start we drifted | E |
| Racketing her rivets loose smoke stack white as snow | F |
| All the coals adrift adeck half the rails below | F |
| Leaking like a lobster pot steering like a dray | C |
| Out we took the Bolivar out across the Bay | C |
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| One by one the Lights came up winked and let us by | G |
| Mile by mile we waddled on coal and fo'c'sle short | H |
| Met a blow that laid us down heard a bulkhead fly | G |
| Left the Wolf behind us with a two foot list to port | H |
| Trailing like a wounded duck working out her soul | I |
| Clanging like a smithy shop after every roll | I |
| Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray | C |
| So we threshed the Bolivar out across the Bay | C |
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| 'Felt her hog and felt her sag betted when she'd break | J |
| Wondered every time she raced if she'd stand the shock | K |
| Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake | K |
| Hoped the Lord 'ud keep his thumb on the plummer block | K |
| Banged against the iron decks bilges choked with coal | I |
| Flayed and frozen foot and hand sick of heart and soul | I |
| Last we prayed she'd buck herself into judgment Day | C |
| Hi we cursed the Bolivar knocking round the Bay | C |
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| O her nose flung up to sky groaning to be still | L |
| Up and down and back we went never time for breath | M |
| Then the money paid at Lloyd's caught her by the heel | N |
| And the stars ran round and round dancin' at our death | M |
| Aching for an hour's sleep dozing off between | O |
| 'Heard the rotten rivets draw when she took it green | O |
| 'Watched the compass chase its tail like a cat at play | C |
| That was on the Bolivar south across the Bay | C |
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| Once we saw between the squalls lyin' head to swell | P |
| Mad with work and weariness wishin' they was we | Q |
| Some damned Liner's lights go by like a long hotel | P |
| Cheered her from the Bolivar swampin' in the sea | Q |
| Then a grayback cleared us out then the skipper laughed | R |
| quot Boys the wheel has gone to Hell rig the winches aft | R |
| Yoke the kicking rudder head get her under way quot | R |
| So we steered her pulley haul out across the Bay | C |
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| Just a pack o' rotten plates puttied up with tar | S |
| In we came an' time enough 'cross Bilbao Bar | S |
| Overloaded undermanned meant to founder we | Q |
| Euchred God Almighty's storm bluffed the Eternal Sea | Q |
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| Seven men from all the world back to town again | A |
| Rollin' down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain | B |
| Seven men from out of Hell Ain't the owners gay | C |
| 'Cause we took the quot Bolivar quot safe across the Bay | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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