The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBDB CE BBFBGBHB HHIHBJBJ CBBBHBBB HKHKLHMH BBHBHNKNI'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 |
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Like a fine fat saucy Chinaman | C |
One of the present time | E |
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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 |
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