The Bucolics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEFGGHHAIAJJ KLKLMNMN OPBPQRQR STTUVVWXXYPPZZA2A2ZB 2B2C2C2FJJ KD2KD2ZE2ZE2ZF2ZF2E2 E2Z G2H2G2H2| Ladies and gentlemen I take this opportunity | A |
| To introduce myself and mention that much as we may deplore the fact we are | B |
| essentially an agricultural community | A |
| Altho' in our metropolitan centres millions may live and toil | C |
| Most of us directly or indirectly exist by thro' on and for the soil | C |
| Our outlook is largely directed upon crops prices profits and 'The Main Chance ' | D |
| So that we rarely discover time or opportunity to glance | E |
| At the fine arts and higher culture of this and older lands and gather unto | F |
| ourselves the satisfaction such contemplation lends | G |
| Therefore our guides philosophers mentors leaders teachers and friends | G |
| Declare that amongst the toilers of our race | H |
| Such contemplation is utterly out of place | H |
| And altho' this may seem rather funny | A |
| One cannot definitely enjoy 'culchaw' unless one is now possessed of | I |
| leisure and money | A |
| To encourage it in the Common People is a vain and profitless thing | J |
| Wherefore I sing | J |
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| The plough's in the furrow | K |
| The cow's at the bail | L |
| We delve and we burrow | K |
| For nought may avail | L |
| Save toil thro' the seasons | M |
| Material joy | N |
| These these be the reasons | M |
| For all our employ | N |
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| The mute Mona Lisa | O |
| Praxiteles' art | P |
| Such trifles as these are | B |
| Things quite quite apart | P |
| On on with life's battle | Q |
| Wring sweat from the brow | R |
| What's culture to cattle | Q |
| What's art to a cow | R |
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| To resume ladies and gentlemen the more comprehensible form of discourse I | S |
| had temporarily forsaken | T |
| Is it not possible that our mentors censors et al may be sadly mistaken | T |
| Or stay is it conceivable that they would lock and bar our halls of art and | U |
| culture at night | V |
| Lest the Common People might | V |
| By some strange chance absorb so much of the capacity for appreciation that | W |
| they would in time be able to patronise us | X |
| Nay even to advise us | X |
| On certain aesthetic matters which Perish the thought For who would have | Y |
| the heart | P |
| To vulgarise all Art | P |
| For consider how were it possible to feel superior | Z |
| When none remains any longer who as one comfortably recognises is inferior | Z |
| And so for evermore | A2 |
| Bar bar and bolt the door | A2 |
| Of our Temple which enshrines works for the edification only of superior | Z |
| mortals | B2 |
| Lock lock and double lock those portals | B2 |
| Hide from vulgar gaze the treasures that therein lurk | C2 |
| Except of course during those hours when the toilers are at work | C2 |
| Melbourne my Melbourne Never let the souls of thy earthbound people into | F |
| the rarer regions take wing | J |
| Wherefore again I sing | J |
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| The swine's in his wallow | K |
| Fat porkers are prime | D2 |
| Then follow come follow | K |
| 'Tis lamb tailin' time | D2 |
| All golden the butter | Z |
| There's market for meat | E2 |
| Tho' Mallee men mutter | Z |
| Of smut in the wheat | E2 |
| But 'paintin'' and pitcher' | Z |
| Franz Hals he was Dutch | F2 |
| Ah who grows the richer | Z |
| For gawping at such | F2 |
| A 'pitcher' by Carot | E2 |
| A 'statcher' all 'nood' | E2 |
| One fills you with sorrow | Z |
| The other is 'rood ' | - |
| We toil for men's bodies | G2 |
| Our minds all a fog | H2 |
| What's paintin' to poddies | G2 |
| What's art to a hog | H2 |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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