'the Lone Wolf Of Canberra' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB ADADD DD BEBEFFFE GHGHBBBH| A man without a party he | A |
| Knows nought of obligation | B |
| To any friend but fancy free | A |
| He represents the nation | B |
| In lonely majesty he sits | C |
| To give the Opposition fits | C |
| Or rend the Government to bits | C |
| With fierce vituperation | B |
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| Of all he is most wise most free | A |
| Most pure and inter alia | D |
| Shorn of responsibility | A |
| He speaks for all Australia | D |
| Tho' parties rise or parties fall | D |
| What cares he He's 'Agin 'em all ' | - |
| Sole patriot clad at Freedom's call | D |
| In Liberty's regalia | D |
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| All saving him are out of tune | B |
| When the lone wolf is howling | E |
| He lifts his head and bays the moon | B |
| With fierce but futile growling | E |
| And tho' the Opposition squirms | F |
| And Ministers would sue for terms | F |
| He knows them all for loathy worms | F |
| Despite the Speaker's scowling | E |
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| At Canberra he's as free as air | G |
| So say the press recorders | H |
| He knows no man as master there | G |
| Within its sylvan borders | H |
| And so tho' members fret and frown | B |
| He scarcely ever need sit down | B |
| Except to write to Sydney town | B |
| To Mister Lang for orders | H |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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