How M'ginnis Went Missing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCDC AEAE AFAFGHG IJIJ KDKD| Let us cease our idle chatter | A |
| Let the tears bedew our cheek | B |
| For a man from Tallangatta | C |
| Has been missing for a week | B |
| Where the roaring flooded Murray | D |
| Covered all the lower land | C |
| There he started in a hurry | D |
| With a bottle in his hand | C |
| - | |
| And his fate is hid for ever | A |
| But the public seem to think | E |
| That he slumbered by the river | A |
| 'Neath the influence of drink | E |
| - | |
| And they scarcely seem to wonder | A |
| That the river wide and deep | F |
| Never woke him with its thunder | A |
| Never stirred him in his sleep | F |
| As the crashing logs came sweeping | G |
| And their tumult filled the air | H |
| Then M'Ginnis murmured sleeping | G |
| 'Tis a wake in ould Kildare ' | - |
| So the river rose and found him | I |
| Sleeping softly by the stream | J |
| And the cruel waters drowned him | I |
| Ere he wakened from his dream | J |
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| And the blossom tufted wattle | K |
| Blooming brightly on the lea | D |
| Saw M'Ginnis and the bottle | K |
| Going drifting out to sea | D |
Banjo Paterson
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