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 whichA
I trust you'll not think flatB
Of a fine fat saucy ChinamanC
Who lives on BallaratB
Whose pigtail is wound round his nutB
In a tremendous plaitB
And who wears on most occasionsD
A mushroom looking hatB
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Like a fine fat saucy ChinamanC
One of the present timeE
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His tent is on the Red Hill andB
He's fossicking all dayB
And though he takes what others leaveF
Contrives to make it payB
And sometimes gets big nuggetsG
As I've heard people sayB
For by dint of perseveranceH
He always pays his wayB
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But the people on the diggingsH
Complain of him in shoalsH
They say he's always damagingI
The splendid waterholesH
And when they catch him at itB
Into a rage they flyJ
But quot Welly good no sabby quotB
Is all John will replyJ
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There's an awful insurrectionC
In China now 'tis saidB
He comes away but finds here tooB
A price set on his headB
But as the ten pound poll taxH
He swears he will not standB
He goes on shore at AdelaideB
And tramps it overlandB
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Now John with all his many faultsH
Leads an industrious lifeK
The greatest drawback that he hasH
Is that he has no wifeK
And as he is a bachelorL
Of course he never popsH
To spend his tin in any ofM
The millinery shopsH
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Now as he's getting lots of goldB
I've not the slightest doubtB
That ultimately Chinese girlsH
By thousands will come outB
Of all sizes and complexionsH
To please both great and smallN
For John says that without a wifeK
He can't get on at allN

Anonymous Oceania



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