The Reverend Mullineux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDE FBGGBEEE HBIIBGGE JBKKBLLEI'd reckon his weight as eight stun eight | A |
And his height as five foot two | B |
With a face as plain as an eight day clock | C |
And a walk as brisk as a bantam cock | C |
Game as a bantam too | B |
Hard and wiry and full of steam | D |
That's the boss of the English Team | D |
Reverend Mullineux | E |
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Makes no row when the game gets rough | F |
None of your Strike me blue | B |
Yous wants smacking across the snout | G |
Plays like a gentleman out and out | G |
Same as he ought to do | B |
Kindly remove from off my face | E |
That's the way that he states his case | E |
Reverend Mullineux | E |
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Kick He can kick like an army mule | H |
Run like a kangaroo | B |
Hard to get by as a lawyer plant | I |
Tackles his man like a bull dog ant | I |
Fetches hom over too | B |
Didn't the public cheer and shout | G |
Watchin' him chuckin' big blokes about | G |
Reverend Mullineux | E |
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Scrimmage was packed on his prostrate form | J |
Somehow the ball got through | B |
Who was it tackled our big half back | K |
Flinging him down like an empty sack | K |
Right on our goal line too | B |
Who but the man that we thought was dead | L |
Down with a score of 'em on his head | L |
Reverend Mullineux | E |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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