Hopeful Hawkins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FAG CHIH JKLK MNCN OPQP RSTS UNQN VWXW YZA2Z RB2WB2 YC2D2C2 ABB2B| Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat | A |
| And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss | B |
| But in justice be it said that he had a business head | C |
| That's why I'm standing here and telling this | B |
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| He was trav'ling for a company insuring people's lives | D |
| And stayed about a month in Dingo Flat | A |
| But his biz was rather dull and we took him for a gull | E |
| An amazing simple minded one at that | A |
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| He was mad he was on mining and around about the town | F |
| Prospected every reef But worse than that | A |
| He'd talk for half a day in a most annoying way | G |
| On 'The mineral resources of the Flat ' | - |
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| He swore that somewhere nigh us was a rich gold bearing red | C |
| If a fellow only had the luck to strike it | H |
| And he only used to laugh when the boys began to chaff | I |
| And seemed in fact to rather sort of like it | H |
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| Well we stood him for a month until he well nigh drove us mad | J |
| And as jeering couldn't penetrate his hide | K |
| We fixed a little scheme for to dissipate his dream | L |
| And sicken him of mining till he died | K |
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| We got a likely looking bit of quartz and faked it up | M |
| With dabs of golden paint then called him in | N |
| Oh he went clean off his head it was gold for sure he said | C |
| And if we'd sell our claim he'd raise the tin | N |
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| But we weren't taking any not at least till later on | O |
| For we reckoned that we'd string him on a while | P |
| When he wanted information of the reef's exact location | Q |
| We would meet him with a knowing sort of smile | P |
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| At last we dropped a hint that set him pegging out a claim | R |
| And we saw that we were coming in for sport | S |
| For the next account we heard was when Hawkins passed the word | T |
| He was fetching up an expert to report | S |
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| When we heard that expert's verdict we were blown clean out of time | U |
| And absorbed the fact that we had fallen in | N |
| The gold he said would run 'bout four ounces to the ton | Q |
| With traces too of copper zinc and tin | N |
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| Old Hawkins he was jubilant and up at Peter's store | V |
| A lovely lot of specimens was showing | W |
| And we gazed at them and groaned for the truth had to be owned | X |
| We had put him on a pile without our knowing | W |
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| We couldn't let the thing slip through our fingers so to speak | Y |
| There were thousands in the mine without a doubt | Z |
| So me and Baker Brothers and half a dozen others | A2 |
| We formed a syndicate to buy him out | Z |
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| Well he said he'd not the money to develop such a claim | R |
| And he'd sell it if we made a decent bid | B2 |
| So we made pretence at dealing and it almost seemed like stealing | W |
| When he parted for five hundred lovely quid | B2 |
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| We haven't seen the vendor in the Flat for nigh a week | Y |
| And we're wishing on the whole he'd never come | C2 |
| The confounded mine's a duffer for that simple minded buffer | D2 |
| He had salted it The 'expert' was a chum | C2 |
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| Hawkins wasn't reckoned much at all in Dingo Flat | A |
| We'd a notion that his headpiece was amiss | B |
| But we wish to have it stated he was rather underrated | B2 |
| That's why I'm standing here and telling this | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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