How-s My Boy? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADAAEFGHE BIDIDIFIDEJGDG BDDKKDEGDBDDBDB| HO Sailor of the sea | A |
| How s my boy my boy | B |
| What s your boy s name good wife | C |
| And in what good ship sail'd he | A |
| My boy John He that went to sea | A |
| What care I for the ship sailor | D |
| My boy's my boy to me | A |
| You come back from sea | A |
| And not know my John | E |
| I might as well have ask d some landsman | F |
| Yonder down in the town | G |
| There s not an ass in all the parish | H |
| But he knows my John | E |
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| How s my boy my boy | B |
| And unless you let me know | I |
| I ll swear you are no sailor | D |
| Blue jacket or no | I |
| Brass buttons or no sailor | D |
| Anchor and crown or no | I |
| Sure his ship was the Jolly Briton | F |
| Speak low woman speak low | I |
| And why should I speak low sailor | D |
| About my own boy John | E |
| If I was loud as I am proud | J |
| I d sing him over the town | G |
| Why should I speak low sailor | D |
| That good ship went down | G |
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| How s my boy my boy | B |
| What care I for the ship sailor | D |
| I was never aboard her | D |
| Be she afloat or be she aground | K |
| Sinking or swimming I ll be bound | K |
| Her owners can afford her | D |
| I say how s my John | E |
| Every man on board went down | G |
| Every man aboard her | D |
| How s my boy my boy | B |
| What care I for the men sailor | D |
| I m not their mother | D |
| How s my boy my boy | B |
| Tell me of him and no other | D |
| How s my boy my boy | B |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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