Joe Golightly Or, The First Lord's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG BGBG HBHB IBIB J BKBKLBK MKMKNMK BOBO PKPK LLLL QKQK QBQB BBBB RBRB KLKL KBKB SJSJ TLTL UBUB VWVW XKXK YZYZA tar but poorly prized | A |
Long shambling and unsightly | B |
Thrashed bullied and despised | A |
Was wretched JOE GOLIGHTLY | B |
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He bore a workhouse brand | C |
No Pa or Ma had claimed him | D |
The Beadle found him and | E |
The Board of Guardians named him | D |
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P'r'aps some Princess's son | F |
A beggar p'r'aps his mother | G |
HE rather thought the one | F |
I rather think the other | G |
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He liked his ship at sea | B |
He loved the salt sea water | G |
He worshipped junk and he | B |
Adored the First Lord's daughter | G |
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The First Lord's daughter proud | H |
Snubbed Earls and Viscounts nightly | B |
She sneered at Barts aloud | H |
And spurned poor Joe Golightly | B |
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Whene'er he sailed afar | I |
Upon a Channel cruise he | B |
Unpacked his light guitar | I |
And sang this ballad Boosey | B |
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Ballad | J |
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The moon is on the sea | B |
Willow | K |
The wind blows towards the lee | B |
Willow | K |
But though I sigh and sob and cry | L |
No Lady Jane for me | B |
Willow | K |
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She says 'Twere folly quite | M |
Willow | K |
For me to wed a wight | M |
Willow | K |
Whose lot is cast before the mast | N |
And possibly she's right | M |
Willow | K |
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His skipper CAPTAIN JOYCE | B |
He gave him many a rating | O |
And almost lost his voice | B |
From thus expostulating | O |
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Lay aft you lubber do | P |
What's come to that young man JOE | K |
Belay 'vast heaving you | P |
Do kindly stop that banjo | K |
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I wish I do O lor' | L |
You'd shipped aboard a trader | L |
ARE you a sailor or | L |
A negro serenader | L |
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But still the stricken lad | Q |
Aloft or on his pillow | K |
Howled forth in accents sad | Q |
His aggravating Willow | K |
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Stern love of duty bad | Q |
Been JOYCE'S chiefest beauty | B |
Says he I love that lad | Q |
But duty damme duty | B |
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Twelve months' black hole I say | B |
Where daylight never flashes | B |
And always twice a day | B |
A good six dozen lashes | B |
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But JOSEPH had a mate | R |
A sailor stout and lusty | B |
A man of low estate | R |
But singularly trusty | B |
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Says he Cheer hup young JOE | K |
I'll tell you what I'm arter | L |
To that Fust Lord I'll go | K |
And ax him for his darter | L |
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To that Fust Lord I'll go | K |
And say you love her dearly | B |
And JOE said weeping low | K |
I wish you would sincerely | B |
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That sailor to that Lord | S |
Went soon as he had landed | J |
And of his own accord | S |
An interview demanded | J |
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Says he with seaman's roll | T |
My Captain wot's a Tartar | L |
Guv JOE twelve months' black hole | T |
For lovering your darter | L |
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He loves MISS LADY JANE | U |
I own she is his betters | B |
But if you'll jine them twain | U |
They'll free him from his fetters | B |
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And if so be as how | V |
You'll let her come aboard ship | W |
I'll take her with me now | V |
Get out remarked his Lordship | W |
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That honest tar repaired | X |
To JOE upon the billow | K |
And told him how he'd fared | X |
JOE only whispered Willow | K |
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And for that dreadful crime | Y |
Young sailors learn to shun it | Z |
He's working out his time | Y |
In six months he'll have done it | Z |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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