Parody
Generations of disrespectful schoolchildren, perhaps in accord with Butler's way of thinking, created parodies. One, recalled by Martin Gardner, editor of Best Remembered Poems, went:
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- The boy stood on the burning deck,
- The flames 'round him did roar;
- He found a bar of Ivory Soap
- And washed himself ashore.
Michael R. Turner, editor of Victorian Parlour Poetry, contributed:
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- The boy stood in the waiting room,
- Whence all but he had fled;
- His waistcoat was unbuttoned,
- His mouth was gorged with bread...
While a version found in "Oh, How Silly!" (ed. William Cole):
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- The boy stood on the burning deck
- Eating peanuts by the peck;
- His father called, he would not go
- Because he loved those peanuts so.
Spike Milligan also parodied the opening of the poem:
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- The boy stood on the burning deck
- Whence all but he had fled -
- Twit!
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