German Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFD GHGHCDBBD IJIJKDL MNMNKDOO PQPQJD RD SBSBTDUUD VMVMTDEED| Skirting the swamp and the tangled scrub | A |
| Tramping and turning amidst the trees | B |
| Carrying nothing but blankets and grub | A |
| Careless of pleasure and health and ease | B |
| Hither and thither with never a goal | C |
| Heavy and solemn and stiff and slow | D |
| Seeking a track and a long lost line | E |
| 'Blazed avay to dot lead of mine ' | F |
| Restless and rickety German Joe | D |
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| Down in the gully and up the range | G |
| Stung by the gale and the hate hot sun | H |
| Never a greeting to give in change | G |
| Never a tip from the nearest run | H |
| Seeking a guide to a golden hole | C |
| Lost in the lone land long ago | D |
| Left in the keep of the hills and trees | B |
| Jealous to have and to hold are these | B |
| Hope you may get it though German Joe | D |
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| 'Likely old yarn for a horse marine | I |
| Struck it you say at the river head | J |
| Back where the bellowing bunyip's seen | I |
| Out beyond everywhere rich and red | J |
| Left it for tucker and lost the track | K |
| Blazed till your arm couldn't strike a blow | D |
| Gravel that gleams with the golden stuff | L |
| Nuggets 'shust like as der plums in duff ' | - |
| What are you giving us German Joe ' | - |
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| 'Blaze Yes you strike for the Granite Stair | M |
| Make to the left when you cross the creek | N |
| South till you meet with a monkey bear | M |
| Tramp in his tracks for about a week | N |
| Then you can travel the sky line back | K |
| So long old chap if you're bound to go | D |
| Don't you forget when you're rich and great | O |
| Who laid you on to the lost lead mate | O |
| Mad as a hatter is German Joe ' | - |
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| Laugh as they may they will stand his friends | P |
| Right as rain when the old man takes | Q |
| Down to his bunk in the hut and spends | P |
| Seven weeks fighting the fever and shakes | Q |
| Muttering still of his lucky lead | J |
| 'Vhisper I leds you all in der know | D |
| Den you pe richer nor as der pank ' | - |
| Boys he's a man if he is a crank | R |
| Whiskey and physic for German Joe | D |
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| Now he's abroad in a wild dream land | S |
| Baring his breast to the river breeze | B |
| Out where the rock ribbed ridges stand | S |
| Telling his tale to the secret trees | B |
| Swift as the shadows his visions glide | T |
| Over the plains where the mad winds blow | D |
| Cover his face now and carve a stone | U |
| Henceforth his spirit must seek alone | U |
| Dead as a door nail is German Joe | D |
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| Bushmen have yarned of a ghost that went | V |
| Blazing a track from the Granite Stair | M |
| Down to a shaft and a tattered tent | V |
| Many days' journey from anywhere | M |
| Others have said that the bushmen lied | T |
| Liars or not it is true we know | D |
| Men have discovered a golden mine | E |
| Out in the track of an old blazed line | E |
| Led by the spirit of German Joe | D |
Edward Dyson
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