The Old Camp-oven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL HMHMNONO PQPQRSRS ETETPUDU| We don't keep a grand piano in our hut beside the creek | A |
| And I'm pretty certain Hannah couldn't bang it anyhow | B |
| But we've got one box of music and I'd rather hear its squeak | A |
| Than the daisiest cantata that's been fashioned up to now | B |
| It's an old camp oven merely with a handle made of wire | C |
| But no organ built could nearly compensate to me for it | D |
| When I come off graft and find it playing tunes before the fire | C |
| And I'm feeling sort of vacant but just wonder fully fit | D |
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| In its sizzle sizzle sizzle | E |
| There's a thousand little airs | F |
| And no man can sit and grizzle | E |
| 'Bout his troubles and his cares | F |
| While the flames are gaily winding | G |
| And the tea is down to brew | H |
| And the old camp oven's grinding | G |
| All the reels he ever knew | H |
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| When the wet winds meet and whip me in the early winter nights | I |
| And the hissing hailstones clip me all the way across the flat | J |
| As I battle for'ards water logged toward the beckoning lights | I |
| There is always there a welcome to console a chap for that | J |
| For my little wife is beaming brisk and bright beside the lamp | K |
| And the old camp oven's going Gosh I feel just like a kid | L |
| As I peel and sluice so slippy and I hear the storm winds vamp | K |
| To the singing of the oven when the missus lifts the lid | L |
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| There's a sizzle and a splutter | H |
| And a whirr of many harps | M |
| Where's the instrument can utter | H |
| Such a maze of flats and sharps | M |
| Not for me the great creations | N |
| When the old camp oven plays | O |
| 'Home Sweet Home ' with variations | N |
| At the end of working days | O |
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| In the evenings dim and hazy stretched outside along a butt | P |
| Feeling reasonably lazy blowing clouds that curl and climb | Q |
| I can hear the old camp oven on the logs before the hut | P |
| Ripping out a mellow chorus that just suits the place and time | Q |
| If we strike it in the ranges or The Windmill turns out well | R |
| I suppose there'll be some changes and I'll want to make things gee | S |
| But the time will never happen when I'll be so steep a swell | R |
| That the old camp oven's measure won't be melody to me | S |
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| 'Neath its bubble bubble bubble | E |
| There's the lilt of jigs and reels | T |
| All the common kind of trouble | E |
| That the horney handed feels | T |
| Is wiped out in half a minute | P |
| By the restfulness it brings | U |
| And the peaceful rapture in it | D |
| When the old camp oven sings | U |
Edward Dyson
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