Uncle Bill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEEFFGGAAHH EEIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPAA QR SSTTAAMy Uncle Bill My Uncle Bill | A |
How doth my heart with anguish thrill | A |
For he our chief our Robin Hood | B |
Has gone to jail for stealing wood | B |
With tears and sobs my voice I raise | C |
To celebrate my uncle's praise | C |
With all my strength with all my skill | A |
I'll sing the song of Uncle Bill | A |
Convivial to the last degree | D |
An open hearted sportsman he | D |
Did midnight howls our slumbers rob | E |
We said It's uncle 'on the job' | E |
When sounds of fight rang sharply out | F |
Then Bill was bound to be about | F |
The foremost figure in the scrap | G |
A terror to the local trap | G |
To drink or fight or maim or kill | A |
Came all alike to Uncle Bill | A |
And when he faced the music's squeak | H |
At Central Court before the beak | H |
How carefully we sought our fob | E |
To pay his fine of forty bob | E |
Recall the happy days of yore | I |
When Uncle Bill went forth to war | I |
When all the street with strife was filled | J |
And both the traps got nearly killed | J |
When the lone cabman on the stand | K |
was stoushed by Bill's unaided hand | K |
And William mounted filled with rum | L |
And drove the cab to kingdom come | L |
Remember too that famous fray | M |
When the Black reds who hold their sway | M |
O'er Surry Hills and Shepherd's Bush | N |
Descended on the Liver Push | N |
Who cheered both parties long and loud | O |
Who heaved blue metal at the crowd | O |
And sooled his bulldog Fighting Bet | P |
To bite haphazard all she met | P |
And when the mob were lodged in gaol | A |
Who telegraphed to me for bail | A |
And here I think he showed his sense | Q |
Who calmly turned Queen's evidence | R |
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Enough I now must end my song | S |
My needless anguish why prolong | S |
From what I've said you'll own I'm sure | T |
That Uncle Bill was pretty pure | T |
So rowdies all your glasses fill | A |
And drink it standing Uncle Bill | A |
Banjo Paterson
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