Investigating Flora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEFGHGFIJIKLML JBMBCJNJOPQPRSTSUVKV JNCNNINIMWMWNJNJXYNY CZNZNA2JA2 NICINCICJJJJNJNJCB2Z B2 JIC2IIINIKD2NE2 NIJINF2NF2NIJIF2INIJ JF2JF2G2JG2'Twas in scientific circles | A |
That the great Professor Brown | B |
Had a world wide reputation | C |
As a writer of renown | B |
He had striven finer feelings | D |
In our natures to implant | E |
By his Treatise on the Morals | A |
Of the Red eyed Bulldog Ant | E |
He had hoisted an opponent | F |
Who had trodden unawares | G |
On his Reasons for Bare Patches | H |
On the Female Native Bears | G |
So they gave him an appointment | F |
As instructor to a band | I |
Of the most attractive females | J |
To be gathered in the land | I |
'Twas a Ladies' Science Circle | K |
Just the latest social fad | L |
For the Nicest People only | M |
And to make their rivals mad | L |
They were fond of science rambles | J |
To the country from the town | B |
A parade of female beauty | M |
In the leadership of Brown | B |
They would pick a place for luncheon | C |
And catch beetles on their rugs | J |
The Professor called 'em optera | N |
They calld 'em nasty bugs | J |
Well the thing was bound to perish | O |
For no lovely woman can | P |
Feel the slightest interest | Q |
In a club without a Man | P |
The Professor hardly counted | R |
He was crazy as a loon | S |
With a countenance suggestive | T |
Of an elderly baboon | S |
But the breath of Fate blew on it | U |
With a sharp and sudden blast | V |
And the Ladies' Science Circle | K |
Is a memory of the past | V |
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There were two and twenty members | J |
Mostly young and mostly fair | N |
Who had made a great excursion | C |
To a place called Dontknowwhere | N |
At the crossing of Lost River | N |
On the road to No Man's Land | I |
There they met an old selector | N |
With a stockwhip in his hand | I |
And the sight of so much beauty | M |
Sent him slightly off his nut | W |
So he asked them smiling blandly | M |
Would they come down to the hut | W |
I am come said the Professor | N |
In his thin and reedy voice | J |
To investigate your flora | N |
Which I feel is very choice | J |
The selector stared dumbfounded | X |
Till at last he found his tongue | Y |
To investigate my Flora | N |
Oh you howlin' Brigham Young | Y |
Why you've two and twenty wimmen | C |
Reg'lar slap up wimmen too | Z |
And you're after little Flora | N |
And a crawlin' thing like you | Z |
Oh you Mormonite gorilla | N |
Well I've heard it from the first | A2 |
That you wizened little fellers | J |
Is a hundred times the worst | A2 |
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But a dried up ape like you are | N |
To be marchin' through the land | I |
With a pack of lovely wimmen | C |
Well I cannot understand | I |
You mistake said the Professor | N |
In a most indignant tone | C |
While the ladies shrieked and jabbered | I |
In a fashion of their own | C |
You mistake about these ladies | J |
I'm a lecturer of theirs | J |
I am Brown who wrote the Treatise | J |
On the Female Native Bears | J |
When I said we wanted flora | N |
What I meant was native flowers | J |
Well you said you wanted Flora | N |
And I'll swear you don't get ours | J |
But here's Flora's self a comin' | C |
And it's time for you to skip | B2 |
Or I'll write a treatise on you | Z |
And I'll write it with the whip | B2 |
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Now I want no explanations | J |
Just you hook it out of sight | I |
Or you'll charm the poor girl some'ow | C2 |
The Professor looked in fright | I |
She was six feet high and freckled | I |
And her hair was turkey red | I |
The Professor gave a whimper | N |
And threw down his bag and fled | I |
And the Ladies' Science Circle | K |
With a simultaneous rush | D2 |
Travelled after its Professor | N |
And went screaming through the bush | E2 |
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At the crossing of Lost River | N |
On the road to No Man's Land | I |
Where the grim and ghostly gumtrees | J |
Block the view on every hand | I |
There they weep and wail and wander | N |
Always seeking for the track | F2 |
For the hapless old Professor | N |
Hasn't sense to guide 'em back | F2 |
And they clutch at one another | N |
And they yell and scream in fright | I |
As they see the gruesome creatures | J |
Of the grim Australian night | I |
And they hear the mopoke's hooting | F2 |
And the dingo's howl so dread | I |
And the flying foxes jabber | N |
From the gum trees overhead | I |
While the weird and wary wombats | J |
In their subterranean caves | J |
Are a digging always digging | F2 |
At those wretched people's graves | J |
And the pike horned Queensland bullock | F2 |
From his shelter in the scrub | G2 |
Has his eye on the proceedings | J |
Of the Ladies' Science Club | G2 |
Banjo Paterson
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