True To Poll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFFG GGBBG HIJIJKJJG LMNMMGCOG GGBBG| I'll sing you a song not very long | A |
| But the story somewhat new | B |
| Of William Kidd who whatever he did | C |
| To his Poll was always true | B |
| He sailed away in a galliant ship | D |
| From the port of old Bristol | E |
| And the last words he uttered | F |
| As his hankercher he fluttered | F |
| Were My heart is true to Poll | G |
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| His heart was true to Poll | G |
| His heart was true to Poll | G |
| It's no matter what you do | B |
| If your heart be only true | B |
| And his heart was true to Poll | G |
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| 'Twas a wreck William on shore he swam | H |
| And looked about for an inn | I |
| When a noble savage lady of a color rather shady | J |
| Came up with a kind of grin | I |
| Oh marry me and a king you'll be | J |
| And in a palace loll | K |
| Or we'll eat you willy nilly | J |
| So he gave his hand did Billy | J |
| But his heart was true to Poll | G |
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| Away a twelvemonth sped and a happy life he led | L |
| As the King of the Kikeryboos | M |
| His paint was red and yellar and he used a big umbrella | N |
| And he wore a pair of over shoes | M |
| He'd corals and knives and twenty six wives | M |
| Whose beauties I cannot here extol | G |
| One day they all revolted | C |
| So he back to Bristol bolted | O |
| For his heart was true to Poll | G |
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| His heart was true to Poll | G |
| His heart was true to Poll | G |
| It's no matter what you do | B |
| If your heart be only true | B |
| And his heart was true to Poll | G |
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
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