Hawking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFE G HIH JKLK GEGE M GGLGNEGE M OEOEPEPE M QRQSGEGE M| Air Bow Wow Wow | A |
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| Now shut your mouths you loafers all | B |
| You vex me with your twaddle | C |
| You own a nag or big or small | B |
| A bridle and a saddle | C |
| I you advise at once be wise | D |
| And waste no time in talking | E |
| Procure some bags of damaged rags | F |
| And make your fortune hawking | E |
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| Chorus | G |
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| Hawk hawk hawk | H |
| Our bread to win we'll all begin | I |
| To hawk hawk hawk | H |
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| The stockmen and the bushmen and | J |
| The shepherds leave the station | K |
| And the hardy bullock punchers throw | L |
| Aside their occupation | K |
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| While some have horses some have drays | G |
| And some on foot are stalking | E |
| We surely must conclude it pays | G |
| When all are going hawking | E |
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| Chorus Hawk hawk hawk c | M |
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| A life it is so full of bliss | G |
| 'Twould suit the very niggers | G |
| And lads I know a hawking go | L |
| Who scarce can make the figures | G |
| But penmanship's no requisite | N |
| Keep matters square by chalking | E |
| With pencil or with ruddle that's | G |
| Exact enough for hawking | E |
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| Chorus Hawk hawk hawk c | M |
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| The hawker's gay for half the day | O |
| While others work he's spelling | E |
| Though he may stay upon the way | O |
| His purse is always swelling | E |
| With work his back is never bent | P |
| His hardest toil is talking | E |
| Three hundred is the rate per cent | P |
| Of profit when a hawking | E |
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| Chorus Hawk hawk hawk c | M |
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| Since pedlaring yields more delight | Q |
| Than ever digging gold did | R |
| And since to fortune's envied height | Q |
| The path I have unfolded | S |
| We'll fling our moleskins to the dogs | G |
| And don tweeds without joking | E |
| And honest men as well as rogues | G |
| We'll scour the country hawking | E |
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| Chorus Hawk hawk hawk c | M |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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