Why The Jackass Laughs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDE EFFGHIICC JJAACC KKLLMMNN OOPPQQCC RROOKK CCCC| The Boastful Crow and the Laughing Jack | A |
| Were telling tales of the outer back | A |
| I've just been travelling far and wide | B |
| At the back of Bourke and the Queensland side | B |
| There isn't a bird in the bush can go | C |
| As far as me said the old black crow | C |
| There isn't a bird in the bush can fly | D |
| A course as straight or a course as high | D |
| Higher than human eyesight goes | E |
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| There's sometimes clouds but there's always crows | E |
| Drifting along for a scent of blood | F |
| Or a smell of smoke or a sign of flood | F |
| For never a bird or a beast has been | G |
| With a sight as strong or a scent as keen | H |
| At fires and floods I'm the first about | I |
| For then the lizards and mice run out | I |
| And I make my swoop and that's all they know | C |
| I'm a whale on mice said the Boastful Crow | C |
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| The Bee birds over the homestead flew | J |
| And told each other the long day through | J |
| The cold has come we must take the track | A |
| Now I'll make you a bet said the Laughing Jack | A |
| Of a hundred mice that you dare not go | C |
| With the little Bee birds by Boastful Crow | C |
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| Said the Boastful Crow I could take my ease | K |
| And fly with little green birds like these | K |
| If they went flat out and they did their best | L |
| I could have a smoke and could take a rest | L |
| And he asked of the Bee birds circling round | M |
| Now where do you spike tails think you're bound | M |
| We leave tonight and out present plan | N |
| is to go straight on till we reach Japan | N |
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| Every year on the self same day | O |
| We call our children and start away | O |
| Twittering travelling day and night | P |
| Over the ocean we take our flight | P |
| And we rest a day on some lonely isles | Q |
| Or we beg a ride for a hundred miles | Q |
| On a steamer's deck and away we go | C |
| We hope you'll come with us Mister Crow | C |
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| But the old black crow was extremely sad | R |
| Said he I reckon you're raving mad | R |
| To talk of travelling night and day | O |
| And how in the world do you find your way | O |
| And the Bee birds answered him If you please | K |
| That's one of our own great mysteries | K |
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| Now these things chanced in the long ago | C |
| And explain the fact which no doubt you know | C |
| That every jackass high and low | C |
| Will always laugh when he sees a crow | C |
Banjo Paterson
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