The Man From Ironbark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICC JJKKCC LLCCCC KKMMCC NNOOCC| It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town | A |
| He wandered over street and park he wandered up and down | A |
| He loitered here he loitered there till he was like to drop | B |
| Until at last in sheer despair he sought a barber's shop | B |
| Ere shave my beard and whiskers off I'll be a man of mark | C |
| I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark | C |
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| The barber man was small and flash as barbers mostly are | D |
| He wore a strike your fancy sash he smoked a huge cigar | D |
| He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee | E |
| He laid the odds and kept a tote whatever that may be | E |
| And when he saw our friend arrive he whispered Here's a lark | C |
| Just watch me catch him all alive this man from Ironbark | C |
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| There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall | F |
| Their eyes were dull their heads were flat they had no brains at all | F |
| To them the barber passed the wink his dexter eyelid shut | G |
| I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut | G |
| And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark | C |
| I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark | C |
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| A grunt was all the reply he got he shaved the bushman's chin | H |
| Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in | H |
| He raised his hand his brow grew black he paused awhile to gloat | I |
| Then slashed the red hot razor back across his victim's throat | I |
| Upon the newly shaven skin it made a livid mark | C |
| No doubt it fairly took him in the man from Ironbark | C |
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| He fetched a wild up country yell might wake the dead to hear | J |
| And though his throat he knew full well was cut from ear to ear | J |
| He struggled gamely to his feet and faced the murd'rous foe | K |
| You've done for me you dog I'm beat one hit before I go | K |
| I only wish I had a knife you blessed murdering shark | C |
| But you'll remember all your life the man from Ironbark | C |
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| He lifted up his hairy paw with one tremendous clout | L |
| He landed on the barber's jaw and knocked the barber out | L |
| He set to work with nail and tooth he made the place a wreck | C |
| He grabbed the nearest gilded youth and tried to break his neck | C |
| And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark | C |
| And Murder Bloody murder yelled the man from Ironbark | C |
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| A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show | K |
| He tried to run the bushman in but he refused to go | K |
| And when at last the barber spoke and said 'Twas all in fun | M |
| 'Twas just a little harmless joke a trifle overdone | M |
| A joke he cried By George that's fine a lively sort of lark | C |
| I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark | C |
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| And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape | N |
| He tells the story o'er and o'er and brags of his escape | N |
| Them barber chaps what keeps a tote By George I've had enough | O |
| One tried to cut my bloomin' throat but thank the Lord it's tough | O |
| And whether he's believed or no there's one thing to remark | C |
| That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark | C |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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