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‘Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch’

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

‘Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch’

METADATA

Metadata

‘Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch’

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 244, August 1888.

First line

Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Fishing song cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s essay Workers’ Song (pp. 238-250). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8317

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8317_watch_barrel_watch_mackerel.html.

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