John Gilbert (bushranger) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EFAG HDII JJKK DDJJ JJLL MMNN MMDD| He and his gang stuck up the township of Canowindra for two days in | A |
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| Air Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie | B |
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| John Gilbert was a bushranger of terrible renown | C |
| For sticking lots of people up and shooting others down | C |
| John Gilbert said unto his pals Although they make a bobbery | D |
| About our tricks we have never done a tip top thing in robbery | D |
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| We have all of us a fancy for experiments in pillage | E |
| Yet never have we seized a town or even sacked a village | F |
| John Gilbert said unto his mates Though partners we have been | A |
| In all rascality yet we no festal day have seen | G |
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| John Gilbert said he thought he saw no obstacle to hinder a | H |
| Piratical descent upon the town of Canowindra | D |
| So into Canowindra town rode Gilbert and his men | I |
| And all the Canowindra folk subsided there and then | I |
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| The Canowindra populace cried Here's a lot of strangers | J |
| But immediately recovered when they found they were bushrangers | J |
| And Johnny Gilbert said to them You need not be afraid | K |
| We are only old companions whom bushrangers you have made | K |
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| And Johnny Gilbert said said he We'll never hurt a hair | D |
| Of men who bravely recognise that we are just all there | D |
| The New South Welshmen said at once not making any fuss | J |
| That Johnny Gilbert after all was Just but one of us | J |
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| So Johnny Gilbert took the town including public houses | J |
| And treated all the cockatoos and shouted for their spouses | J |
| And Miss O'Flanagan performed in manner quite gintailly | L |
| Upon the grand planner for the bushranger O'Meally | L |
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| And every stranger passing by they took and when they got him | M |
| They robbed him of his money and occasionally shot him | M |
| And Johnny's enigmatic feat admits of this solution | N |
| That bushranging in New South Wales is a favoured institution | N |
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| So Johnny Gilbert ne'er allows an anxious thought to fetch him | M |
| For well he knows the Government don't really want to ketch him | M |
| And if such practices should be to New South Welshmen dear | D |
| With not the least demurring word ought we to interfere | D |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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