Investigating Flora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEFGHGFIJIKLML JBMBCJNJOPQPRSTSUVKV JNCNNINIMWMWNJNJXYNY CZNZNA2JA2 NICINCICJJJJNJNJCB2Z B2 JIC2IIINIKD2NE2 NIJINF2NF2NIJIF2INIJ JF2JF2G2JG2

'Twas in scientific circlesA
That the great Professor BrownB
Had a world wide reputationC
As a writer of renownB
He had striven finer feelingsD
In our natures to implantE
By his Treatise on the MoralsA
Of the Red eyed Bulldog AntE
He had hoisted an opponentF
Who had trodden unawaresG
On his Reasons for Bare PatchesH
On the Female Native BearsG
So they gave him an appointmentF
As instructor to a bandI
Of the most attractive femalesJ
To be gathered in the landI
'Twas a Ladies' Science CircleK
Just the latest social fadL
For the Nicest People onlyM
And to make their rivals madL
They were fond of science ramblesJ
To the country from the townB
A parade of female beautyM
In the leadership of BrownB
They would pick a place for luncheonC
And catch beetles on their rugsJ
The Professor called 'em opteraN
They calld 'em nasty bugsJ
Well the thing was bound to perishO
For no lovely woman canP
Feel the slightest interestQ
In a club without a ManP
The Professor hardly countedR
He was crazy as a loonS
With a countenance suggestiveT
Of an elderly baboonS
But the breath of Fate blew on itU
With a sharp and sudden blastV
And the Ladies' Science CircleK
Is a memory of the pastV
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There were two and twenty membersJ
Mostly young and mostly fairN
Who had made a great excursionC
To a place called DontknowwhereN
At the crossing of Lost RiverN
On the road to No Man's LandI
There they met an old selectorN
With a stockwhip in his handI
And the sight of so much beautyM
Sent him slightly off his nutW
So he asked them smiling blandlyM
Would they come down to the hutW
I am come said the ProfessorN
In his thin and reedy voiceJ
To investigate your floraN
Which I feel is very choiceJ
The selector stared dumbfoundedX
Till at last he found his tongueY
To investigate my FloraN
Oh you howlin' Brigham YoungY
Why you've two and twenty wimmenC
Reg'lar slap up wimmen tooZ
And you're after little FloraN
And a crawlin' thing like youZ
Oh you Mormonite gorillaN
Well I've heard it from the firstA2
That you wizened little fellersJ
Is a hundred times the worstA2
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But a dried up ape like you areN
To be marchin' through the landI
With a pack of lovely wimmenC
Well I cannot understandI
You mistake said the ProfessorN
In a most indignant toneC
While the ladies shrieked and jabberedI
In a fashion of their ownC
You mistake about these ladiesJ
I'm a lecturer of theirsJ
I am Brown who wrote the TreatiseJ
On the Female Native BearsJ
When I said we wanted floraN
What I meant was native flowersJ
Well you said you wanted FloraN
And I'll swear you don't get oursJ
But here's Flora's self a comin'C
And it's time for you to skipB2
Or I'll write a treatise on youZ
And I'll write it with the whipB2
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Now I want no explanationsJ
Just you hook it out of sightI
Or you'll charm the poor girl some'owC2
The Professor looked in frightI
She was six feet high and freckledI
And her hair was turkey redI
The Professor gave a whimperN
And threw down his bag and fledI
And the Ladies' Science CircleK
With a simultaneous rushD2
Travelled after its ProfessorN
And went screaming through the bushE2
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At the crossing of Lost RiverN
On the road to No Man's LandI
Where the grim and ghostly gumtreesJ
Block the view on every handI
There they weep and wail and wanderN
Always seeking for the trackF2
For the hapless old ProfessorN
Hasn't sense to guide 'em backF2
And they clutch at one anotherN
And they yell and scream in frightI
As they see the gruesome creaturesJ
Of the grim Australian nightI
And they hear the mopoke's hootingF2
And the dingo's howl so dreadI
And the flying foxes jabberN
From the gum trees overheadI
While the weird and wary wombatsJ
In their subterranean cavesJ
Are a digging always diggingF2
At those wretched people's gravesJ
And the pike horned Queensland bullockF2
From his shelter in the scrubG2
Has his eye on the proceedingsJ
Of the Ladies' Science ClubG2

Banjo Paterson



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