The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBDB CE BBFBGBHB HHIHBJBJ CBBBHBBB HKHKLHMH BBHBHNKN| I'll sing a little ditty which | A |
| I trust you'll not think flat | B |
| Of a fine fat saucy Chinaman | C |
| Who lives on Ballarat | B |
| Whose pigtail is wound round his nut | B |
| In a tremendous plait | B |
| And who wears on most occasions | D |
| A mushroom looking hat | B |
| - | |
| Like a fine fat saucy Chinaman | C |
| One of the present time | E |
| - | |
| His tent is on the Red Hill and | B |
| He's fossicking all day | B |
| And though he takes what others leave | F |
| Contrives to make it pay | B |
| And sometimes gets big nuggets | G |
| As I've heard people say | B |
| For by dint of perseverance | H |
| He always pays his way | B |
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| But the people on the diggings | H |
| Complain of him in shoals | H |
| They say he's always damaging | I |
| The splendid waterholes | H |
| And when they catch him at it | B |
| Into a rage they fly | J |
| But quot Welly good no sabby quot | B |
| Is all John will reply | J |
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| There's an awful insurrection | C |
| In China now 'tis said | B |
| He comes away but finds here too | B |
| A price set on his head | B |
| But as the ten pound poll tax | H |
| He swears he will not stand | B |
| He goes on shore at Adelaide | B |
| And tramps it overland | B |
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| Now John with all his many faults | H |
| Leads an industrious life | K |
| The greatest drawback that he has | H |
| Is that he has no wife | K |
| And as he is a bachelor | L |
| Of course he never pops | H |
| To spend his tin in any of | M |
| The millinery shops | H |
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| Now as he's getting lots of gold | B |
| I've not the slightest doubt | B |
| That ultimately Chinese girls | H |
| By thousands will come out | B |
| Of all sizes and complexions | H |
| To please both great and small | N |
| For John says that without a wife | K |
| He can't get on at all | N |
Anonymous Oceania
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