Monday, January 13, 2003

Jobson Of The Star Comments

Rating: 5.0

Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar,
With pipe in mouth and mug in hand sat Jobson of the Star.
"Come, sit ye down, ye wond'ring wight, and have a yarn," says he.
"I can't," says I, "because to-night I'm off to Tripoli;
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Robert William Service
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Erin Thomas 01 April 2013

And there is no have a in the drink line, just drink. Well anyway, sit down you mug, and drink before you go. have a turns the line into an octameter, and the line is meant to be a heptameter. My god are all of Service's poems like this here?

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Erin Thomas 01 April 2013

Jesus what's with all the errors? Does anyone happen to have the book with this poem in it so as to correct it? A lot of it is really basic, *the errant trail? *Then Jobson yawned? Hello?

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