Nursery Rhyme. Ccxc. Games Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FBGB DECE ABHB DEIE JBBB DEKE LBMB DENE OBBB| There were three jovial Welshmen | A |
| As I have heard them say | B |
| And they would go a hunting | C |
| Upon St David's day | B |
| - | |
| All the day they hunted | D |
| And nothing could they find | E |
| But a ship a sailing | C |
| A sailing with the wind | E |
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| One said it was a ship | F |
| The other he said nay | B |
| The third said it was a house | G |
| With the chimney blown away | B |
| - | |
| And all the night they hunted | D |
| And nothing could they find | E |
| But the moon a gliding | C |
| A gliding with the wind | E |
| - | |
| One said it was the moon | A |
| The other he said nay | B |
| The third said it was a cheese | H |
| And half o't cut away | B |
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| And all the day they hunted | D |
| And nothing could they find | E |
| But a hedgehog in a bramble bush | I |
| And that they left behind | E |
| - | |
| The first said it was a hedgehog | J |
| The second he said nay | B |
| The third it was a pincushion | B |
| And the pins stuck in wrong way | B |
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| And all the night they hunted | D |
| And nothing could they find | E |
| But a hare in a turnip field | K |
| And that they left behind | E |
| - | |
| The first said it was a hare | L |
| The second he said nay | B |
| The third said it was a calf | M |
| And the cow had run away | B |
| - | |
| And all the day they hunted | D |
| And nothing could they find | E |
| But an owl in a holly tree | N |
| And that they left behind | E |
| - | |
| One said it was an owl | O |
| The other he said nay | B |
| The third said 'twas an old man | B |
| And his beard growing grey | B |
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