Sister Ann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCDD EFEFGHGGHH IJIJKEKKEE ILILMNMMNO PQPQRSRRSS TUTLVNVVNN QWQWXGXXGG| I'm lyin' in a narrow bed | A |
| 'N' starin' at a wall | B |
| Where all is white my plastered head | A |
| Is whitest of it all | B |
| My life is jist a whitewashed blank | C |
| With flamin' spurts of pain | D |
| I dunno who I've got to thank | C |
| I've p'raps been trod on by a tank | C |
| Or caught out in the rain | D |
| When skies were peltin' fish plates bricks 'n' lengths of bullock chain | D |
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| I'm lyin' here a sulky swine | E |
| 'N' hatin' of the bloke | F |
| Who's in the doss right next to mine | E |
| With 'arf his girders broke | F |
| He never done no 'arm t me | G |
| 'N' he's pertickler ill | H |
| But I have got him snouted see | G |
| 'N' all old earth beside but she | G |
| Come with the chemist's swill | H |
| 'N' puts a kind soft 'and on mine 'n' all my nark is still | H |
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| She ain't a beaut she's thirty two | I |
| She scales eleven stone | J |
| But 'struth I didn't think it true | I |
| There was such women grown | J |
| She's nurse 'n' sister mum 'n' dad | K |
| 'N' all that straight 'n' fine | E |
| In every girl I ever had | K |
| When Gabr'el comes 'n' all the glad | K |
| Young saints are tipped the sign | E |
| You'll see this donah take her place first angel in the line | E |
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| She's sweet 'n' cool her touch is dew | I |
| Wet lilies on yer brow | L |
| Jist 'ark et me what never knew | I |
| Of lilies up to now | L |
| She fits your case in 'arf a wink | M |
| 'N' knows how why 'n' where | N |
| If you are five days gone in drink | M |
| N' hoverin' on perdition's brink | M |
| It is her brother there | N |
| God how pain will take a man and He has spoke with her | O |
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| I dunno if she ever sleeps | P |
| Ten minutes at a stretch | Q |
| A dozen times a night she creeps | P |
| To soothe a screamin' wretch | Q |
| Who has a tiger headed Hun | R |
| A gnawin' at his chest | S |
| 'N' when the long 'ard flght is won | R |
| 'N' he is still 'n' nearly done | R |
| She smiles down on his rest | S |
| 'N' minds me of a mother with a baby at her breast | S |
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| The curly kid we cuddled when | T |
| There was no splendid row | U |
| It seemed a little matter then | T |
| But feels so wondrous now | L |
| It's part of her She's Joan iv Ark | V |
| Flo Nightingale all fair | N |
| 'N' dinkum dames who've made their mark | V |
| If she comes tip toe in the dark | V |
| We blighters feel her there | N |
| The whole pack perks up like a bird 'n' sorter takes the air | N |
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| She chats you in a 'Ighland botch | Q |
| But if our Sis saw fit | W |
| To pitch Hindoo instead of Scotch | Q |
| I'd get the hang of it | W |
| Because her heart it is that talks | X |
| What now is plain to me | G |
| At war where bloody murder stalks | X |
| 'N' Nick his hottest samples hawks | X |
| I have been given to see | G |
| What simple human kindness is what brotherhood may be | G |
Edward Dyson
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