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The Ballad Of Cockatoo Dock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DD EEE FFF GGG HII JJJ KKK LLK KKK

Of all the docks upon the blueA
There was no dockyard old or newA
To touch the dock at CockatooA
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Of all the ministerial clanB
There was no nicer worthier manB
Than Admiral O'SullivanC
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Of course we mean E W-
O'Sullivan the hero who-
Controlled the dock at Cockatoo-
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To workmen he explained his viewsD
quot You need not toil unless you chooseD
Your only work is drawing screws quot-
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And sometimes to their great surpriseE
When votes of censure filled the skiesE
He used to give them all a riseE
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quot What odds about a pound or two quot-
Exclaimed the great E W-
O'Sullivan at Cockatoo-
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The dockyard superintendent heF
Was not at all what he should beF
He sneered at all this sympathyF
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So when he gave a man the sackG
O'Sullivan got on his trackG
And straightway went and fetched him backG
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And with a sympathetic tearH
He'd say quot How dare you interfereI
You most misguided engineerI
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quot Your sordid manners please amend-
No man can possibly offend-
Who has a Member for a friend-
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quot With euchre or a friendly rubJ
And whisky from the nearest 'pub'J
We'll make the dockyard like a clubJ
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quot Heave ho my hearties play awayK
We'll do no weary work todayK
What odds the public has to payK
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quot And if the public should complainL
I'll go to Broken Hill by trainL
To watch McCarthy making rain quotK
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And there with nothing else to doK
No doubt the great E WK
Will straightway raise McCarthy's screwK

Banjo Paterson



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