Kids! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDCAEEEFFEEFEG GEEEHHEEFFEIJEEKJEHH ELLDDLEHEEMMHHMEHHEF FNNF| Kids | A |
| Hundreds of 'em for the farmer Kids of an imported brand | B |
| Thousands of 'em for the country Lo the man upon the land | B |
| Bids | A |
| Loud for England's surplus youngster five whole bob a week 'tis said | C |
| And their value to the nation stands at many pounds a head | C |
| But the nation never riz 'em | D |
| That 'would tend to Socialism' | D |
| So we have to fetch 'em over from the country where they're bred | C |
| Kids | A |
| Send us kids from good old Britain sons of men who won't be slaves | E |
| From the land where countless paupers seek dishonorable graves | E |
| Quids | E |
| We're prepared to offer for them Ship them out across the deep | F |
| From that dear old Freetrade country where the cost of labor's cheap | F |
| While of our unmarried workers | E |
| Married men are costly shirkers | E |
| We will take a meagre hundred at a pound a week and keep | F |
| Kids | E |
| We can't raise 'em in Australia where employers by the score | G |
| For the bloke without a missus in the labor dep ts roar | G |
| Bids | E |
| Ship 'em out The noble farmer yearns to mould their bright young lives | E |
| Ship 'em young that for a dozen years they may not seek for wives | E |
| When they think of getting married | H |
| Maybe they'll regret they tarried | H |
| Where the kid encumbered worker vainly for a billet strives | E |
| Kids | E |
| We don't want 'em when they're babies for their raisin' costs a heap | F |
| We don't want 'em when they're married with their own young broods to keep | F |
| Skids | E |
| And brakes upon the wheels of progress are such futile folk Just look | I |
| At the bob advertisement You'll see their chance of work is 'crook ' | J |
| Ship 'em out in handy sizes | E |
| For the cove that advertises | E |
| For the unencumbered couple | K |
| ' Man to milk and wife to cook ' | J |
| Kids | E |
| Spare our days Why should we raise 'em We can get 'em ready made | H |
| From a land where there's a surplus thanks to good old BULL's Freetrade | H |
| Quids | E |
| It will save the careful farmer He can give his man the sack | L |
| Costly man who owns a missus and a child or two to whack | L |
| Ship 'em out he's yearnin' for 'em | D |
| While they're young he'll just adore 'em | D |
| Then when they grow up and marry someone else can ship 'em back | L |
| Ships | E |
| Pass in with cheap boy labor 'badly needed farming hand' | H |
| Shps pass out with young Australians seeking work in other lands | E |
| Hips | E |
| Hurrahs are loudly sounded for the patriotic bloke | M |
| He who perpetrated this unseemly emigration joke | M |
| Cheers for him who brings the kiddy | H |
| To a job that's sure and 'stiddy' | H |
| It will balance the outgoing of our workless married folk | M |
| Kids | E |
| Lo we want them want them badly There is none denies the fact | H |
| Kids to populate the country And behold our noble act | H |
| Rids | E |
| England of her surplus toilers we can do with quite a heap | F |
| We can't breed them in the country boys to plough and boys to reap | F |
| And who says it is surprising | N |
| When we're daily advertising | N |
| For a hundred men unmarried at a pound a week and keep | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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