The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNBB OOBJ JJLL PPBJ JJQQ CCRR JJST OOUU STJJ VVJJ JJWW XXJJ| There were three niggers of Chickeraboo | A |
| PACIFICO BANG BANG POPCHOP who | B |
| Exclaimed one terribly sultry day | C |
| Oh let's be kings in a humble way | C |
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| The first was a highly accomplished bones | D |
| The next elicited banjo tones | D |
| The third was a quiet retiring chap | E |
| Who danced an excellent break down flap | E |
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| We niggers said they have formed a plan | F |
| By which whenever we like we can | F |
| Extemporise kingdoms near the beach | G |
| And then we'll collar a kingdom each | G |
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| Three casks from somebody else's stores | H |
| Shall represent our island shores | H |
| Their sides the ocean wide shall lave | I |
| Their heads just topping the briny wave | I |
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| Great Britain's navy scours the sea | J |
| And everywhere her ships they be | J |
| She'll recognise our rank perhaps | K |
| When she discovers we're Royal Chaps | K |
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| If to her skirts you want to cling | L |
| It's quite sufficient that you're a king | L |
| She does not push inquiry far | M |
| To learn what sort of king you are | M |
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| A ship of several thousand tons | N |
| And mounting seventy something guns | N |
| Ploughed every year the ocean blue | B |
| Discovering kings and countries new | B |
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| The brave REAR ADMIRAL BAILEY PIP | O |
| Commanding that magnificent ship | O |
| Perceived one day his glasses through | B |
| The kings that came from Chickeraboo | J |
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| Dear eyes said ADMIRAL PIP I see | J |
| Three flourishing islands on our lee | J |
| And bless me most remarkable thing | L |
| On every island stands a king | L |
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| Come lower the Admiral's gig he cried | P |
| And over the dancing waves I'll glide | P |
| That low obeisance I may do | B |
| To those three kings of Chickeraboo | J |
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| The Admiral pulled to the islands three | J |
| The kings saluted him graciousLEE | J |
| The Admiral pleased at his welcome warm | Q |
| Unrolled a printed Alliance form | Q |
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| Your Majesty sign me this I pray | C |
| I come in a friendly kind of way | C |
| I come if you please with the best intents | R |
| And QUEEN VICTORIA'S compliments | R |
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| The kings were pleased as they well could be | J |
| The most retiring of the three | J |
| In a cellar flap to his joy gave vent | S |
| With a banjo bones accompaniment | T |
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| The great REAR ADMIRAL BAILEY PIP | O |
| Embarked on board his jolly big ship | O |
| Blue Peter flew from his lofty fore | U |
| And off he sailed to his native shore | U |
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| ADMIRAL PIP directly went | S |
| To the Lord at the head of the Government | T |
| Who made him by a stroke of a quill | J |
| BARON DE PIPPE OF PIPPETONNEVILLE | J |
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| The College of Heralds permission yield | V |
| That he should quarter upon his shield | V |
| Three islands VERT on a field of blue | J |
| With the pregnant motto Chickeraboo | J |
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| Ambassadors yes and attaches too | J |
| Are going to sail for Chickeraboo | J |
| And see on the good ship's crowded deck | W |
| A bishop who's going out there on spec | W |
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| And let us all hope that blissful things | X |
| May come of alliance with darky kings | X |
| And may we never whatever we do | J |
| Declare a war with Chickeraboo | J |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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