A Nervous Governor-general Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE FIFIGEGE FJFJKEKE| We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here | A |
| To take up Lord Tennyson's mission | B |
| 'Tis pleasant to find they have sent us a Peer | C |
| And a man of exalted position | B |
| It's his business to see that the Radical horde | D |
| From loyalty's path does not swerve us | E |
| But his tastes and the task don't seem quite in accord | D |
| For they say that His Lordship is nervous | E |
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| Does he think that wild animals walk in the street | F |
| Where the wary marsupial is hopping | G |
| Does he think that the snake and the platypus meet | F |
| And bail up the folk who go shopping | G |
| And the boomerangs fly round the scared passer by | H |
| Who has come all this way to observe us | E |
| While the blackfellow launches a spear at his eye | H |
| No wonder His Lordship is nervous | E |
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| Does he think that with callers he'll be overtasked | F |
| From a baronet down to a barber | I |
| Does he dream of the number of times he'll be asked | F |
| What he thinks of our Beautiful Harbour | I |
| Does he sadly reflect on the sorrows that ding | G |
| Round his task From such sorrows preserve us | E |
| He must hear John See speak and O'Sullivan sing | G |
| It's enough to make any man nervous | E |
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| Does he think he'll be waked in the dead of night | F |
| From Melbourne to go willy nilly | J |
| To live in the Federal Capital site | F |
| At Tumut or Wagra go billy | J |
| Well the Melbournites may let the Capital go | K |
| Here we wink with one eye please observe us | E |
| But not in a hurry By no means Oh no | K |
| He has not the least need to be nervous | E |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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