Banjo Paterson

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Our Mat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HCHC HHHH IDID HJHJ CKCK CBCB

It came from the prison this morningA
Close twisted neat lettered and flatB
It lies the hall doorway adorningA
A very good style of a matB
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Prison made how the spirit is movenC
As we think of its story of dreadD
What wiles of the wicked are wovenC
And spun in its intricate threadD
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The letters are new neat and nobbyE
Suggesting a masterly handF
Was it Sikes who half murdered the bobbyE
That put the neat D on the andG
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Some banker found guilty of lachesH
It's always called laches you knowC
Had Holt any hand in those HsH
Did Bertrand illumine that OC
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That T has a look of the gallowsH
That A's a triangle I guessH
Was it one of the Mount Rennie fellowsH
Who twisted the strands of the SH
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Was it made by some highly connectedI
Who is doing his spell on his headD
Or some wretched woman detectedI
In stealing her children some breadD
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Does it speak of a bitter repentanceH
For the crime that so easily cameJ
Of the wearisome length of the sentenceH
Of the sin and the sorrow and shameJ
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A mat I should call it a sermonC
On sin to all sinners addressedK
It would take a keen judge to determineC
Whether writer or reader is bestK
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Though the doorway be hard as a pavestoneC
I rather would use it than thatB
I'd as soon wipe my boots on a gravestoneC
As I would on that Darlinghurst matB

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