There are the 31 shipping forecast areas (although Finisterre is now Trafalgar).I
have taken terrible liberties with the English language in trying to include them all.
I rather think this poem only 'works' (and even then not very well) if you read it aloud!
I’ve been e-Malin on the Fastnet
To friends that I Rockall
Both the Utsires,Cromerty and Shannon
Have said they've been Tyne to call
They've left their Dog –ger behind them
It’s a nasty German that Bights
And are coming Forties and Biscay
On Lunday to stay for two nights
They’re not Viking but driving the Humber
(He’s Portl(y) and gaining in Weight)
I like to Fish(er), So(u) the f-East I-ce landed
Puts Dover Sole Forth on our plates
The Irish Sea that Bailey(s) makes him ex-Tra falgar
At Thames He-brides there, mouthing Faer oe(th)s
But Fitzroy, their friend sim Ply mouth(s) oaths at him
And if you think that's un-Fair, Isle Finis-terre
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