The Maids Of The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHE I JJ KKGG LLMM EEEE NNBB| In the wild Weddin Mountains there live two young dames | A |
| Kate O'Meally Bet Mayhew are their pretty names | A |
| These maids of the mountains are bonny bush belles | B |
| They ride out on horseback togged out like young swells | B |
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| They dressed themselves up in their brothers' best clothes | C |
| And looked very rakish as you may suppose | D |
| In the joy of their hearts they chuckled with glee | E |
| What fun if for robbers they taken should be | E |
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| Just then the policemen by day and by night | F |
| Were seeking Frank Gardiner the bushranger sprite | F |
| Bold Constable Clark wore a terrible frown | G |
| And thought how Sir Freddy by Frank was done brown | G |
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| They sought for the 'ranger but of course found him not | H |
| When suddenly Katy and Betsy they spot | H |
| 'By Pott ' shouted Clark 'that is Gardiner I see | E |
| The wretch must be taken come boys follow me ' | - |
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| 'Stand ' shouted the bobbies in accents most dread | I |
| 'Or else you will taste our infallible lead ' | - |
| But the maids of the mountains just laughed at poor Clark | J |
| And galloped away to continue their lark | J |
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| The troopers pursued them and hot was the chase | K |
| 'Tis only in Randwick they go at such pace | K |
| Clark captured the pair then to show his vexation | G |
| He lugged them both off to the Young police station | G |
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| The maids of the mountains the joke much enjoyed | L |
| To see their brave captors so sadly annoyed | L |
| Next day they still smiled as they stood in the dock | M |
| Their awful position their nerves did not shock | M |
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| But Constable Clark did not look very jolly | E |
| He had no excuse for such absolute folly | E |
| He admitted the girls were just out on a spree | E |
| And hoped that His Worship would set them both free | E |
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| And so the farce ended of Belles versus Blues | N |
| Which caused no great harm and did much to amuse | N |
| But the Burrangong bobbies will place in their cells | B |
| No more maids of the mountains the bonny bush belles | B |
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