Grey Thrush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDEE FFGG HHII FFEE FFJ KKFF HH L G EEMM NNEE EEB| Grey thrush was in the wattle tree an' 'Oh you pretty dear ' | A |
| He says in his allurin' way an' I remarks 'Hear hear | B |
| That does me nicely for a start but what do I say next ' | A |
| But then the Jacks take up the song an' I get very vexed | C |
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| The thrush was in the wattle tree an' I was underneath | D |
| I'd put a clean white collar on I'd picked a bunch of heath | D |
| For I was cleaned an' clobbered up to meet my Nell that day | E |
| But now my awful trouble comes What is a man to say | E |
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| I mean to tell her all I've thought since first I saw her there | F |
| On the bark heap by the mill shed with the sunlight in her hair | F |
| I mean to tell her all I've done an' what I'll do with life | G |
| An' when I've said all that an' more I'll ask her for my wife | G |
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| I mean to tell her she's too good by far for such as me | H |
| An' how with lonely forest life she never may agree | H |
| I mean to tell her lots of things an' be reel straight an' fine | I |
| And after she's considered that I'll ask her to be mine | I |
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| I seen her by the sassafras the sun was on her hair | F |
| An' I don't know what come to me to see her standin' there | F |
| I never even lifts my hat I never says 'Good day' | E |
| To her that should be treated in a reel respectful way | E |
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| I only know the girl I want is standin' smilin' there | F |
| Right underneath the sassafras I never thought I'd dare | F |
| But I holds out my arms to her an' says as I come near | J |
| Not one word of that speech of mine but 'Oh you pretty dear ' | - |
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| It was enough Lord save a man It's simple if he knew | K |
| There's one way with a woman if she loves you good an' true | K |
| Next moment she is in my arms an' me I don't know where | F |
| If Heaven can compare with it I won't fret much up there | F |
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| 'Why Mister Jim ' she says to me 'You're very bold ' says she | H |
| 'Yes miss ' I says Then she looks up an' that's the end of me | H |
| 'O man ' she cries 'O modest man if you go on like this ' | - |
| But I interrupt a lady an' I do it with a kiss | L |
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| 'Jim do you know what heroes are ' says she when I'd 'behaved ' | - |
| 'Why yes ' says I 'They're blokes that save fair maids that won't be saved ' | - |
| 'You're mine ' says she an' smiles at me 'an' will be all my life | G |
| That is if it occurs to you to ask me for your wife ' | - |
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| Grey thrush is in the wattle tree when I get home that day | E |
| Back to my silent lonely house an' still he sings away | E |
| There is no other voice about no step upon the floor | M |
| An' none to come an' welcome me as I get to the door | M |
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| Yet in the happy heart of me I play at make believe | N |
| I hear one singin' in the room where once I used to grieve | N |
| I hear a light step on the path an' as I reach the gate | E |
| A happy voice that makes me glad tells me I'm awful late | E |
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| Now what's a man to think of that an' what's a man to say | E |
| Who's been out workin' in the bush tree fallin' all the day | E |
| An' how's a man to greet his wife if she should meet him here | B |
| But Grey Thrush in the wattle tree says 'Oh you pretty dear ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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