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Edward Lear: Poems about Ship

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Limerick: There Was An Old Man In A Boat

Analysis of this poem

There was an Old Man in a boat,
Who said, 'I'm afloat! I'm afloat!'
When they said, 'No! you aint!'
He was ready to faint,
That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

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