White Cockatoos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACADADAEAE FGFHAIAI AFAFJKJK ALALLCLC| Now the autumn maize is growing | A |
| Now the corn cob fills | B |
| Where the Little River flowing | A |
| Winds among the hills | B |
| Over mountain peaks outlying | A |
| Clear against the blue | C |
| Comes a scout in silence flying | A |
| One white cockatoo | C |
| Back he goes to where the meeting | A |
| Waits among the trees | D |
| Says The corn is fit for eating | A |
| Hurry if you please | D |
| Skirmishers their line extendiing | A |
| Shout the joyful news | E |
| Down they drop like snow descending | A |
| Clouds of cockatoos | E |
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| At their husking competition | F |
| Hear them screech and yell | G |
| On a gum tree's high position | F |
| Sits a sentinel | H |
| Soon the boss goes boundary riding | A |
| But the wise old bird | I |
| Mute among the branches hiding | A |
| Never says a word | I |
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| Then you hear the strident squalling | A |
| Here's the boss's son | F |
| Through the garden bushes crawling | A |
| Crawling with a gun | F |
| May the shiny cactus bristles | J |
| Fill his soul with woe | K |
| May his knees get full of thistles | J |
| Brothers let us go | K |
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| Old Black Harry sees them going | A |
| Sketches Nature's plan | L |
| That one cocky too much knowing | A |
| All same Chinaman | L |
| One eye shut and one eye winkin' | L |
| Never shut the two | C |
| Chinaman go dead me thinkin' | L |
| Jump up cockatoo | C |
Banjo Paterson
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