The Pannikin Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EEEBFFFB GGGBHHHB IIIBJJJB DDDBKKKB LLLBMMMBThere's nothing here sublime | A |
But just a roving rhyme | A |
Run off to pass the time | A |
With nought titanic in | B |
The theme that it supports | C |
And though it treats of quarts | C |
It's bare of golden thoughts | D |
It's just a pannikin | B |
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I think it's rather hard | E |
That each Australian bard | E |
Each wan poetic card | E |
With thoughts galvanic in | B |
His fiery thought alight | F |
In wild aerial flight | F |
Will sit him down and write | F |
About a pannikin | B |
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He makes some new chum fare | G |
From out his English lair | G |
To hunt the native bear | G |
That curious mannikin | B |
And then the times get bad | H |
That wandering English lad | H |
Writes out a message sad | H |
Upon his pannikin | B |
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O mother think of me | I |
Beneath the wattle tree | I |
For you may bet that he | I |
Will drag the wattle in | B |
O mother here I think | J |
That I shall have to sink | J |
There ain't a single drink | J |
The water bottle in | B |
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The dingo homeward hies | D |
The sooty crows uprise | D |
And caw their fierce surprise | D |
A tone Satanic in | B |
And bearded bushmen tread | K |
Around the sleeper's head | K |
See here the bloke is dead | K |
Now where's his pannikin | B |
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They read his words and weep | L |
And lay him down to sleep | L |
Where wattle branches sweep | L |
A style mechanic in | B |
And reader that's the way | M |
The poets of today | M |
Spin out their little lay | M |
About a pannikin | B |
Banjo Paterson
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