The Pannikin Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EEEBFFFB GGGBHHHB IIIBJJJB DDDBKKKB LLLBMMMB| There's nothing here sublime | A |
| But just a roving rhyme | A |
| Run off to pass the time | A |
| With nought titanic in | B |
| The theme that it supports | C |
| And though it treats of quarts | C |
| It's bare of golden thoughts | D |
| It's just a pannikin | B |
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| I think it's rather hard | E |
| That each Australian bard | E |
| Each wan poetic card | E |
| With thoughts galvanic in | B |
| His fiery thought alight | F |
| In wild aerial flight | F |
| Will sit him down and write | F |
| About a pannikin | B |
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| He makes some new chum fare | G |
| From out his English lair | G |
| To hunt the native bear | G |
| That curious mannikin | B |
| And then the times get bad | H |
| That wandering English lad | H |
| Writes out a message sad | H |
| Upon his pannikin | B |
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| O mother think of me | I |
| Beneath the wattle tree | I |
| For you may bet that he | I |
| Will drag the wattle in | B |
| O mother here I think | J |
| That I shall have to sink | J |
| There ain't a single drink | J |
| The water bottle in | B |
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| The dingo homeward hies | D |
| The sooty crows uprise | D |
| And caw their fierce surprise | D |
| A tone Satanic in | B |
| And bearded bushmen tread | K |
| Around the sleeper's head | K |
| See here the bloke is dead | K |
| Now where's his pannikin | B |
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| They read his words and weep | L |
| And lay him down to sleep | L |
| Where wattle branches sweep | L |
| A style mechanic in | B |
| And reader that's the way | M |
| The poets of today | M |
| Spin out their little lay | M |
| About a pannikin | B |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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