Camouflage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGG HHII JJHH| Beside the bare and beaten track of travelling flocks and herds | A |
| The woodpecker went tapping on the postman of the birds | A |
| I've got a letter here he said that no one's understood | B |
| Addressed as follows 'To the bird that's like a piece of wood ' | C |
| The soldier bird got very cross it wasn't meant for her | D |
| The spurwing plover had a try to stab me with a spur | D |
| The jackass laughed and said the thing was written for a lark | E |
| I think I'll chuck this postman job and take to stripping bark | E |
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| Then all the birds for miles around came in to lend a hand | F |
| They perched upon a broken limb as thick as they could stand | F |
| And just as old man eaglehawk prepared to have his say | G |
| A portion of the broken limb got up and flew away | G |
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| Then casting grammar to the winds the postman said That's him | H |
| The boobook owl he squats himself along a broken limb | H |
| And pokes his beak up like a stick there's not a bird I vow | I |
| Can tell you which is boobook owl and which is broken bough | I |
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| And that's the thing he calls his nest that jerry built affair | J |
| A bunch of sticks across a fork I'll leave his letter there | J |
| A cuckoo wouldn't use his nest but what's the odds to him | H |
| A bird that tries to imitate a piece of leaning limb | H |
Banjo Paterson
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