The Freetrade Rabbit Pie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCDC AEFBGGGG HIHIJGJG AKAKLGLG MNMNGBGB GOGOG GP QBQBRLRL OJOJSASA GJGJTUTU CACAGJGJ OGOGB A| Ses Cullen the cockie he ses to me | A |
| 'Now I puts it to you in this way | B |
| If a feller Woah Ginger Come over yeh cow | C |
| If a feller sets out fer to say | B |
| Where he happens to stand in this politics game | D |
| And to reason the why and the how | C |
| He has got to have somethink to back up the same | D |
| As the sayin' is Woah there yeh cow | C |
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| Ses Cullen the cockie e ses to me | A |
| 'Well I reasons it out fer yeh so | E |
| There's this 'ere Pertection an' this 'ere Woah Nell | F |
| Come over there Ginger Way Woah | B |
| There's this 'ere Pertection an' this 'ere Freetrade | G |
| Which I never 'ave quite understood | G |
| Till I figures it out be the blunders I made | G |
| While I scratched fer me own livelihood | G |
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| 'When first I took up me selection out 'ere | H |
| I was votin' Freetrade pretty strong | I |
| An' to live on the cheap was me centril idear | H |
| An' I couldn't see anythink wrong | I |
| With livin' on rabbits fer rabbits was cheap | J |
| As you'll probably quite understand | G |
| Fer back in that time we was breedin' a heap | J |
| On me own an' the neighborin' land | G |
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| 'There wus Sanderson had the next selection to me | A |
| He bred mostly rabbits an' debts | K |
| An' Jones an' McPherson an' Sandy McGee | A |
| Had heaps of the dear little pets | K |
| So I figgers ut out to meself an' I owns | L |
| That this puttin' up fences is rot | G |
| I'd be wantin' the rabbits of Sandy an' Jones | L |
| When I'd et up me own little lot | G |
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| 'So I cleared off a bit an' I sowed down me grass | M |
| An' I lived upon rabbits an' duff | N |
| Which was cheap you'll allow but as months came to pass | M |
| I was just about gettin' enough | N |
| I was pinin' fer change so I reckoned I'd breed | G |
| Some sheep an' a bullock or two | B |
| But them dash Freetrade rabbits kep' eatin' the feed | G |
| Just as fast as the bloomin' stuff grew | B |
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| 'It was here that I gave up me Freetrade fer good | G |
| An' I set about riggin' a fence | O |
| Jest a sort o' low tariff of barbwire an' wood | G |
| I admits I was long gettin' sense | O |
| 'Now this ' reckons I 'will keep most of 'em out | G |
| While ut lets just a few of 'em in ' | - |
| You will note all along I 'ave not the least doubt | G |
| I was keen upon savin' me tin | P |
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| 'But I'd come to icknowledge that breedin' the pests | Q |
| Was a false an' mistaken idear | B |
| So I poisons me own an' I digs out the nests | Q |
| Till I got me place pretty well clear | B |
| But me chock an' log fence was a sight fer sore eyes | R |
| It was far frum Pertection I owns | L |
| Fer I stil hugged the notion of eatin' cheap pies | R |
| That was bred be McPherson an' Jones | L |
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| 'An' them rabbits was cheap you might think I was dense | O |
| But I couldn't deny they was cheap | J |
| So still they come in through th egaps in the fence | O |
| An' took 'alf o' the grass from me sheep | J |
| The sudden one mornin' it struck me fair whack | S |
| An' I seen ut as plain as could be | A |
| Wot about all the grass that them rabbits took back | S |
| To McPherson an' Jones an' McGee | A |
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| 'There was Sanderson's rabbits consuimin' the feed | G |
| That belonged to me bullicks an' cheep | J |
| An' here was me helpin' 'em Thinkin' I'd need | G |
| Of a bunny or two in the cheap | J |
| I was solid Pertection in less than a week | T |
| An' me nettin' was up in quick time | U |
| An' now you will notice me bullicks is sleek | T |
| An' me mutton I tell yeh is prime | U |
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| 'So you take ut frum me Woah there Ginger yeh cow | C |
| Ses old Cullen the cockie ses he | A |
| 'I'm a certain an' solid Pertectionist now | C |
| fer I'm sick of the bunny that's free | A |
| 'Low Tariff' is lettin' in rabbits to eat | G |
| The grass that you want fer yer sheep | J |
| An' doin' in chances of raisin' good meat | G |
| In the hope of a pie on the cheap | J |
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| 'An' if these politicians 'as got any sense | O |
| An' I've 'eard as there's some with a head | G |
| They will give over patchin' their chock an' log fence | O |
| An' put up new nettin' instead | G |
| Fer I've found that the nettin's the sensible way | B |
| An' I'm happy and properous now ' | - |
| Ses Cullen the cockie he ses to me 'Hey | A |
| Git on with yeh Ginger yeh cow ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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