The Lowestoft Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDE DDF GGF HHF IF DDF JCKDDE| East Coast Patrols of the War | A |
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| In Lowestoft a boat was laid | B |
| Mark well what I do say | C |
| And she was built for the herring trade | B |
| But she has gone a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' | D |
| The Lord knows where | E |
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| They gave her Government coal to burn | D |
| And a Q F gun at bow and stern | D |
| And sent her out a rovin' etc | F |
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| Her skipper was mate of a bucko ship | G |
| Which always killed one man per trip | G |
| So he is used to rovin' etc | F |
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| Her mate was skipper of a chapel in Wales | H |
| And so he fights in topper and tails | H |
| Religi ous tho' rovin' etc | F |
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| Her engineer is fifty eight ' | - |
| So he's prepared to meet his fate | I |
| Which ain't unlikely rovin' etc | F |
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| Her leading stoker's seventeen | D |
| So he don't know what the Judgments mean | D |
| Unless he cops 'em rovin' etc | F |
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| Her cook was chef in the Lost Dogs' Home | J |
| Mark well what I do say | C |
| And I'm sorry for Fritz when they all come | K |
| A rovin' a rovin' a roarin' and a rovin' | D |
| Round the North Sea rovin' | D |
| The Lord knows where | E |
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