Little Billee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABA ACDA AAAA AADA EAFA GAAF AFAF DHDA IAAF| Air quot il y avait un petit navire quot | A |
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| There were three sailors of Bristol city | A |
| Who took a boat and went to sea | A |
| But first with beef and captain's biscuits | B |
| And pickled pork they loaded she | A |
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| There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy | A |
| And the youngest he was little Billee | C |
| Now when they got as far as the Equator | D |
| They'd nothing left but one split pea | A |
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| Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy | A |
| quot I am extreamely hungaree quot | A |
| To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy | A |
| quot We've nothing left us must eat we quot | A |
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| Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy | A |
| quot With one another we shouldn't agree | A |
| There's little Bill he's young and tender | D |
| We're old and tough so let's eat he | A |
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| quot Oh Billy we're going to kill and eat you | E |
| So undo the button of your chemie quot | A |
| When Bill received this information | F |
| He sued his pocket handkerchie | A |
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| quot First let me say my catechism | G |
| Which my poor mammy taught to me quot | A |
| quot Make haste make haste quot says guzzling Jimmy | A |
| While Jack pulled his snickersnee | F |
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| So Billy went up to the main top gallant mast | A |
| And down he fell on bended knee | F |
| He scarse had come to the twelfth commandment | A |
| when up he jumps quot There's land I see | F |
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| quot Jerusalem and Madagascar | D |
| And North and South Amerikee | H |
| There's the British flag a riding at anchor | D |
| With Admiral Napier K C B quot | A |
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| So when they got aboard of the admiral's | I |
| He hanged flat Jack and flogged Jimmee | A |
| But as fro little Bill he make hime | A |
| The Captain of a Seventy three | F |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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