Wangled By The Wayside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDED FGHGBDBD IJKJJDJD LMNMMDLD BOPOQDJD RBJ DB| 'Country blokes is kind ' he said | A |
| And sat upon his swag | B |
| I had no pipe tobacco | B |
| So he said he'd 'risk a fag ' | C |
| 'A country bloke's my sort o' bloke | B |
| As I've had cause to find | D |
| Them city coves is cold as mud | E |
| But country blokes is kind | D |
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| 'Now f'rinstance just you take yerself | F |
| I meets you on the road | G |
| A stranger fur as I'm concerned | H |
| A cove I've never knowed | G |
| An' when I sprags you for a smoke | B |
| I'll bet you didn't mind | D |
| You done your best tho' fags is muck | B |
| Country blokes is kind | D |
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| 'Country hearts is rightly placed | I |
| A every battler knows | J |
| If I'd have asked you for a feed | K |
| Or p'raps some carst off clo'es | J |
| I'll wager you'd have searched your house | J |
| For all that you could find | D |
| In shape of tucker or of duds | J |
| Yes country blokes is kind | D |
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| 'But city coves I ain't been there | L |
| For years nigh on fifteen | M |
| But lately I meandered down | N |
| Just for a change of scene | M |
| But rekernise a human bean | M |
| They ain't that way inclined | D |
| That crowd of stone eyed strangers there | L |
| Not like the conutry kind | D |
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| 'To ask a bob for food or drink | B |
| In cities is a sin | O |
| An' they goes an' calls a copper | P |
| An' the copper turns you in | O |
| But if you pitch a likely tale | Q |
| Most like you don't git fined | D |
| So I hoofs it back to country scenes | J |
| Where blokes is nice and kind | D |
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| 'So here I am back in the bush | R |
| Still battlin' an' dead broke | B |
| An' the minnit I seen you I sez | J |
| 'Now there's a country bloke ' | - |
| I sez 'He's got that sort of face ' | - |
| I'm broke but I'm not blind | D |
| Stone broke Well I best push along | B |
| Thanks Country blokes is kind ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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