'i Dips Me Lid' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFF GGHHGGGG IIGJDEKL GGHHMMGG NNGG GGG HHGGIIO GGGGGG JJPPGGI GGQQRSTT| 'Young sir ' 'E sez Like that It made me feel | A |
| Romantic like as if me dream was reel | A |
| 'Is dress was fancy an' 'is style was grave | B |
| An' me I 'ope I know 'ow to be'ave | C |
| In 'igh toned company for ain't I been | D |
| Instructed careful by me wife Doreen | E |
| ' Sing small ' she sez An' that's iist wot I did | F |
| I sounds me haitches an' I dips me lid | F |
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| 'Young sir ' 'e sez O' course you understand | G |
| 'Twus jist a dream But on the other 'and | G |
| E seemed so reel as 'e sat spoutin' there | H |
| Beside me on ole Dame Macquarie's Chair | H |
| Lookin' across the 'arbor while 'e talked | G |
| Seemed sumpthink more that jist a ghost 'oo walked | G |
| Out o' the past 'Phillip by name ' 'e said | G |
| A queer ole cock wif lace an' wig on 'ead | G |
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| It 'appened this way I 'ad jist come down | I |
| After long years to look at Sydney town | I |
| An' 'struth Was I knocked endways Fair su'prised | G |
| I never dreamed That arch that cut the skies | J |
| The Bridge I never thort there could 'a' been | D |
| I never knoo nor guessed I never seen | E |
| Well Sydney's 'ad some knocks since I been gone | K |
| But strike This shows she keeps on keepin' on | L |
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| I'd strolled about the town for 'arf a day | G |
| Then dragged me carcass round the 'arbor way | G |
| To view the Bridge from Dame Macquarrie's Chair | H |
| Then parks me frame an' gits to thinkin' there | H |
| Thinkin' of older days an' I suppose | M |
| I must 'ave nodded orf into a doze | M |
| Nex' thing I knoo ole Phillip come an' sat | G |
| Beside me friendly like an' starts to chat | G |
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| 'Young sir ' 'e sez 'You too in sheer amaze | N |
| Look upon this and hark to other days | N |
| An' dream of this fair city's early start | G |
| In which 'e bows I played my 'umble part | G |
| My 'umble part a flagpole an' a tent ' | - |
| 'Come orf ' sez I 'You was a fine ole gent | G |
| Reel nob I've read about the things you did | G |
| You picked some site ' 'E bows I dips me lid | G |
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| 'Young sir ' 'e sez 'I've dwelt in spirit 'ere | H |
| To watch this city waxin' year by year | H |
| But yesterday from a mere staff a tent | G |
| Wonder on wonder as the swift years went | G |
| A thrivin' village then a busy town | I |
| Then as a stride a city of renown | I |
| Oh what a wondrous miracle of growth | O |
| Think you not so ' 'Too right ' I sez 'My oath ' | - |
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| 'I've watched young sir ' 'e sez 'An' I 'ave feared | G |
| Sometimes feared greatly when ill days appeared | G |
| Yet still they fought and wrought I had small need | G |
| To doubt the great heart of this sturdy breed | G |
| Black war has come Yet over half a world | G |
| Their sons into that bloody fray they hurled | G |
| And still they triumphed Still their lodestar shone ' | - |
| 'Sure thing ' sez I ' They kep' on keepin' on ' | - |
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| 'Young sir ' 'e sez 'The tears well in my eyes | J |
| When I behold von arch that cleaves the skies | J |
| That mighty span triumphant where we view | P |
| My old friend Darwin's vision now made true | P |
| 'There the proud arch Colossus like bestride | G |
| Yon glittering stream and bound the chafing tide | G |
| 'Twas so he dreamed a few short years agone | I |
| Spoke truly sir they keep on keeping on ' | - |
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| So Phillip spoke 'is piece fair puffed wif pride | G |
| An' 'im an' me dreamed by the 'arbor side | G |
| I of the scene before of years to be | Q |
| An' of the marvels that men yet might see | Q |
| 'Im of a lantern gleamin' thro' the fog | R |
| To light a tent an' two men an' a dog | S |
| Then both of us like some queer instinct bids | T |
| Stands up serloots the Bridge an' dips our lids | T |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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