The Lung Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDBFF GHGHBB IDIDJJ KLKLMM NJNJOO| The Honorable Ardleigh Wyse | A |
| Was every fisherman's despair | B |
| He caught his fish on floating flies | A |
| In fact he caught them in the air | B |
| And wet fly men good sports perhaps | C |
| He called those chuck and chance it chaps | C |
| And then the Fates that sometimes play | D |
| A joke on such as me and you | E |
| Deported him up Queensland way | D |
| To act as a station jackaroo | B |
| The boundary rider said said he | F |
| You fish dry fly Well so do we | F |
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| These barramundi are the blokes | G |
| To give you all the sport you need | H |
| For when the big lagoons and soaks | G |
| Are dried right down to mud and weed | H |
| They don't sit there and raise a roar | B |
| They pack their traps and come ashore | B |
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| And all these rods and reels you lump | I |
| Along the creek from day to day | D |
| Would only give a man the hump | I |
| Who does his fishing Queensland way | D |
| For when the barramundi's thick | J |
| We knock 'em over with a stick | J |
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| The black boys on the Darwin side | K |
| Will fill a creek with bitter leaves | L |
| And when the fish are stupefied | K |
| The gins will gather 'em in sheaves | L |
| Now tell me could a feller wish | M |
| A finer way of catchin' fish | M |
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| The stokehold of the steamship Foam | N |
| Contains our hero very sick | J |
| A working of his passage home | N |
| And brandishing a blue gum stick | J |
| Behold says he the latest fly | O |
| It's called the Great Australian Dry | O |
Banjo Paterson
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