A Bush Lawyer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDE FFF GHGH IIJ KLKL EEE KMKM NNN| When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon | A |
| The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain | B |
| The ripple of the rivulets was like a cheerful tune | A |
| And wild companions waltzed among the grass as tall as grain | B |
| But Ironbark the turtle cared no whit for all of these | C |
| The ripple of the rivulets the rustle of the trees | C |
| Were only apple sauce to him or just a piece of cheese | C |
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| Now Dan di dan the water rat was exquisitely dressed | D |
| For not a seal in Bass's Straits had half as fine a coat | E |
| And every day he combed and brushed his golden yellow vest | D |
| A contrast with the white cravat he wore beneath his throat | E |
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| And Dan di dan the water rat could move with ease and grace | F |
| So Ironbark appeared to him a creature out of place | F |
| With iron plated overcoat and dirty little face | F |
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| A crawfish at the point of death came drifting down the drains | G |
| Said he I'm scalded to the heart with bathing near the bore | H |
| The turtle and the water rat disputed his remains | G |
| For crawfish meat all day they'd eat and then they'd ask for more | H |
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| Said Dan di dan The prize is mine for I was fishing here | I |
| Before you tumbled down the bank and landed on your ear | I |
| I wouldn't care the turtle said if you'd have fished a year | J |
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| So Baggy beak the Pelican was asked to arbitrate | K |
| The scales of justice seemed to hang beneath his noble beak | L |
| He said I'll take possession of the subject of debate | K |
| He stowed the fish inside his pouch and then began to speak | L |
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| The case is far from clear he said and justices of note | E |
| But here he snapped his beak and flapped his piebald overcoat | E |
| Oh dear he said that wretched fish has slithered down my throat | E |
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| But still he said the point involved requires a full debate | K |
| I'll have to get the lawyer birds and fix a special day | M |
| Ad interim I rule that costs come out of the estate | K |
| And Baggy beak the Pelican got up and flew away | M |
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| So both the pair who went to law were feeling very small | N |
| Said they We might have halved the fish and saved a nasty brawl | N |
| For half a crawfish isn't much but more than none at all | N |
Banjo Paterson
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