A New Girl Up At White's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH CICIJKJK EEEECLCL MNMNOEOE MPMPHQHQ CBCBERERThere's a fresh track down the paddock | A |
Through the lightwoods to the creek | B |
And I notice Billy Craddock | A |
And Maloney do not speak | B |
And The Snag is slyly bitter | C |
When he's criticising Bill | D |
And there's quite a foreign glitter | C |
On the fellows at the mill | D |
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Sid M'Mahon's turned out a dandy | E |
With a masher coat and tie | F |
And the engine driver Sandy | E |
Curls his whiskers on the sly | F |
All the boys wear paper collars | G |
And their tombstone shirts of nights | H |
So it's ten to one in dollars | G |
There's a new girl up at White's | H |
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She's a charmer from the river | C |
But she steeps the lads in gloom | I |
With her blue eyes all a quiver | C |
And her hair like wattle bloom | I |
Though she's pretty and beguiling | J |
And so lit up like with fun | K |
That the flowers turn to her smiling | J |
Just as if she was the sun | K |
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But I wish she'd leave the valley | E |
For the camp is dull to me | E |
Now the mill hands never rally | E |
For the regulation spree | E |
And there's not another joker | C |
Gives a tinker's curse for nap | L |
Or will take a hand at poker | C |
Or at euchre with a chap | L |
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Tom won't stir us with his fiddle | M |
By the boilers as he did | N |
While Bob stepped it in the middle | M |
And we passed the billy lid | N |
Ah we had some gay old nights there | O |
But the boys now don't agree | E |
And they hang about at White's there | O |
When they've togged up after tea | E |
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With the gloves we have no battle | M |
Now they sneak away and moon | P |
Round with White discussing cattle | M |
All the Sunday afternoon | P |
There's a want of old uprightness | H |
Too has come upon the push | Q |
And a sort of cold politeness | H |
That's not called for in the bush | Q |
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They're all off too in that quarter | C |
Kate goes sev'ral times a week | B |
Seeing Andy Kelly's daughter | C |
Jimmy's sister up the creek | B |
And this difference seems a pity | E |
Since their chances are so slim | R |
While they are running after Kitty | E |
She is running after Jim | R |
Edward Dyson
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