Fur And Feathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EBEEB FGFFG HIHHJ KLKKL EMEEM HNHHN| The emus formed a football team | A |
| Up Walgett way | B |
| Their dark brown sweaters were a dream | A |
| But kangaroos would sit and scream | A |
| To watch them play | B |
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| Now butterfingers they would call | C |
| And suck like names | D |
| The emus couldn't hold the ball | C |
| They had no hands but hands aren't all | C |
| In football games | D |
| - | |
| A match against the kangaroos | E |
| They played one day | B |
| The kangaroos were forced to choose | E |
| Some wallabies and wallaroos | E |
| That played in grey | B |
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| The rules that in the west prevail | F |
| Would shock the town | G |
| For when a kangaroo set sail | F |
| An emu jumped upon his tail | F |
| And fetched him down | G |
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| A whistler duck as referee | H |
| Was not admired | I |
| He whistled so incessantly | H |
| The teams rebelled and up a tree | H |
| He soon retired | J |
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| The old marsupial captain said | K |
| It's do or die | L |
| So down the ground like fire he fled | K |
| And leaped above an emu's head | K |
| And scored a try | L |
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| Then shouting Keep it on the toes | E |
| The emus came | M |
| Fierce as the flooded Bogan flows | E |
| They laid their foemen out in rows | E |
| And saved the game | M |
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| In native bear and Darling pea | H |
| They dined that night | N |
| But one man was an absentee | H |
| The whistler duck their referee | H |
| Had taken flight | N |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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