 It was also included in the novel by Chesterton, "The Flying Inn" in 1914.The poem is written in heptameters.Alliteration is plentiful and "a particularly useful device in the last line of each stanza, playfully yoking the far-flung places together (Birmingham/Beachy Head, etc) and reminding us that, like a pub comic, our narrator is, supposedly, improvising his tall story.