The Hundredth Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECECAC FGFGHBHDAC IJIJKCKCAC LCLCMCMCCC| Not that I'd quarrel with the way | A |
| They celebrates their hundredth year | B |
| In town said old Pete Parraday | C |
| But that don't suit us bush blokes here | D |
| So let bells ring and whistles blare | E |
| And fill the town with mighty sound | C |
| Let motor noises tear the air | E |
| An' bonfires light the hills around | C |
| When I'm five score I want some say | A |
| In things said old Peter Parraday | C |
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| I've lived me life here in the bush | F |
| Said Pete since I was but a boy | G |
| An' all this city noise an' push | F |
| Ain't my idea of showin' joy | G |
| Me ears ain't tooned to sich like noise | H |
| And fire is like to wake our fear | B |
| Them ain't the things that we enjoys | H |
| When celebratin' birthdays here | D |
| So if I live so long I pray | A |
| For peace said old Peter Parraday | C |
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| A hundred year's a long long spell | I |
| To hang about this mad ole earth | J |
| And when man nears his century well | I |
| He don't crave much of noisy mirth | J |
| Not for himself with life near run | K |
| Its length such comes for others yet | C |
| Not for himself for he is done | K |
| With all life's hectic fuss an' fret | C |
| So let me have my foolish way | A |
| In this said old Pete Parraday | C |
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| I ask but this an' nothin' more | L |
| When comes my hundredth natal day | C |
| Let me sit here beside my door | L |
| And dream said old Pete Parraday | C |
| While bush birds sing the songs I know | M |
| And bush sounds that I love the best | C |
| Wake memories of the long ago | M |
| Let me sit here a while and rest | C |
| Aye rest and sleep and who shall say | C |
| Sleep sound said old Pete Parraday | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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