An Easter Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAC DEDEDE FGFGFG HIHIHI JKLKHK HMLMLM NONPNO DQDQDQ RSRSRS DTDTDT| Easter Monday in the city | A |
| Rattle rattle rumble rush | B |
| Tom and Jerry Nell and Kitty | A |
| All the down the harbour push | C |
| Little thought have they or pity | A |
| For a wanderer from the bush | C |
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| Shuffle feet a merry measure | D |
| Hurry Jack and find your Jill | E |
| Let her if it give her pleasure | D |
| Flaunt her furbelow and frill | E |
| Kiss her while you have the leisure | D |
| For tomorrow brings the mill | E |
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| Go ye down the harbour winding | F |
| Mid the eucalypts and fern | G |
| Respite from your troubles finding | F |
| Kiss her till her pale cheeks burn | G |
| For to morrow will the grinding | F |
| Mill stones of the city turn | G |
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| Stunted figures sallow faces | H |
| Sad girls striving to be gay | I |
| In their cheap sateens and laces | H |
| Ah how different tis to day | I |
| Where they re going to the races | H |
| Yonder up Monaro way | I |
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| Light mist flecks the Murrumbidgee s | J |
| Bosom with a silver stain | K |
| On the trembling wire bridge is | L |
| Perched a single long legged crane | K |
| While the yellow slaty ridges | H |
| Sweep up proudly from the plain | K |
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| Somebody is after horses | H |
| Donald Charlie or young Mac | M |
| Suddenly his arm he tosses | L |
| Presently you ll hear the crack | M |
| As the symbol of the cross is | L |
| Made on Possum s steaming back | M |
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| Stirling first the Masher follows | N |
| Ly ee moon and old Trump Card | O |
| Helter skelter through the shallows | N |
| Of the willow shaded ford | P |
| Up the lane and past the gallows | N |
| Driven panting to the yard | O |
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| In the homestead what a clatter | D |
| Habits black and habits blue | Q |
| Full a dozen red lips patter | D |
| Who is going to ride with who | Q |
| Mixing sandwiches and chatter | D |
| Gloves to button hair to do | Q |
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| Horses stamp and stirrups jingle | R |
| Dash the filly won t she wait | S |
| Voices bass and treble mingle | R |
| Look sharp May or we ll be late | S |
| How the pulses leap and tingle | R |
| As you lift her featherweight | S |
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| At the thought the heart beats quicker | D |
| Than an old Bohemian s should | T |
| Beating like my battered ticker | D |
| Pawned this time I fear for good | T |
| Bah I ll go and have a liquor | D |
| With the genial Jimmy Wood | T |
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake
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