Marvellous Martin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHEE II JJKKDDDAALLMM| Who sees him walk the street can scarce forbear | A |
| To question thus his friend What prig goes there | A |
| So much hath Nature as 'tis oft her plan | B |
| Stamped inward trickery on the outward man | B |
| And yet with her great interdiction deep | C |
| Impressed thus on his being see him creep | C |
| Into our Parliament and dare to prate | D |
| About the god like principles of State | D |
| With this sole claim address him to the work | E |
| That he has read that prince of sophists Burke | E |
| And though a dreary Plunkett's glad to praise | F |
| His talent seeing that their feeble rays | F |
| Have just that kindred with his own pinched mind | D |
| Which says the proverb makes us wond'rous kind | D |
| No more could such a creature feel or think | G |
| Beyond Expediency's most beaten brink | G |
| Or sum the onward pressure of our race | H |
| Than I could heave a mountain from its base | H |
| Nay even the dogmas of his vaunted Burke | E |
| Work in him to no end or backward work | E |
| Or dwindle in his view like heaven's wide cope | I |
| Seen through the wrong end of a telescope | I |
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| How then might such a 'thing' with all the gang | J |
| That yet like vermin about Wentworth hang | J |
| Rear ranked with hirelings how might he and these | K |
| Any thing snobs and no thing Nominees | K |
| Devise a Government intoned and twined | D |
| With all that's true and fetterless in mind | D |
| And free in body one in short designed | D |
| Not for the pigmies of the passing hour | A |
| But for Australia's future sons of Power | A |
| No they can spin but feudal cobwebs soon | L |
| By Freedom to be blown into the moon | L |
| Or back to Norfolk Island whence 'tis plain | M |
| Their slimy embryos came in youthful Lottery's brain | M |
Charles Harpur
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