It Isn't Cricket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JIJIKLMN OIOIPQPQ| Hello old cobber Well what's on your mind | A |
| You're lookin' awful gloomy and mysterious | B |
| Done in your dough The horses been unkind | A |
| Nobody ill I hope it's nothin' serious | B |
| Aw don't be funny Foreign what Affairs | C |
| Well they ain't happ'nin' this side of the Murray | D |
| Nothin' in my young life them blighters' cares | C |
| Why go so far away to look for worries | E |
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| What League o' Nations Look you ain't allowed | F |
| Them sort of jokes There's nothin' goin' to happen | G |
| I lose no sleep about that comic crowd | F |
| A lot of glum old gaspots always yappin' | G |
| Most of 'em foreigners Aw boy wake up | H |
| That paper talk don't cause my blood to curdle | I |
| Time we was concentratin' on the Cup | H |
| Dam politics What's fancied for the hurdle | I |
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| World politics A grown up cove like you | J |
| Doin' your block that way It's childish Reely | I |
| I know a dozen foreign coves I do | J |
| All ignorint Not edjicated freely | I |
| Like me an' you an' you know insular | K |
| Reel narrer minded Sport They couldn't stick it | L |
| No staminer They ain't built like we are | M |
| Aw let's talk somethin' sensible like cricket | N |
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| War Listen to him Ain't you wise to war | O |
| Just politicians' talk coves of that kidney | I |
| Eh Troopships Headin' Melbourne way What for | O |
| Perish the crows They've just bombarded Sydney | I |
| Look this is murder What's the bloomin' game | P |
| Sydney My brother All my wife's relations | Q |
| Bombarded Here some coot must take the blame | P |
| Where's the police Where's this here League o' Nations | Q |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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