The Grey Fantail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE IDIDJEJE KLKLCECE| The bushmen call me 'Cranky Fan ' | A |
| Because my strange erratic flight | B |
| Seems to uncomprehending man | C |
| Sign of a wit not over bright | B |
| But nimble wit and nimble wing | D |
| Uphold me in the trade I ply | E |
| Of ever restless foraging | D |
| Excuse me there's another fly | E |
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| A tireless ball of buff and grey | F |
| White shafted my important tail | G |
| Guides me on my unstable way | F |
| When stronger aviators fail | G |
| Now right rise up now upside down | H |
| Now tumbling crazily from high | E |
| I ape the antics of a clown | H |
| Whoop and that's another fly | E |
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| 'Tis thus my daily fare I earn | I |
| By nimble trick of wit and wing | D |
| And when my nestlings so would learn | I |
| A clothes line is a handy thing | D |
| And that is why we're sitting now | J |
| Tho' not for long my brood and I | E |
| That they may be instructed how | J |
| Whoop and that's another fly | E |
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| I loop the loop with careless ease | K |
| Now in a tail spin watch me fall | L |
| Yet spite these eccentricities | K |
| I am the friendliest bird of all | L |
| Upon your shoulder lordly man | C |
| I pause as I go flitting by | E |
| Spare a kind word for Cranky Fan | C |
| Whoop and that's another fly | E |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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