A Friendly Game Of Football Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEAA FFGG HHII JJKK LLMN OOAA PPQQ RSAA TTUV GGWW XXBB YYZZ| We were challenged by The Dingoes they're the pride of Squatter's Gap | A |
| To a friendly game of football on the flat by Devil's Trap | A |
| And we went along on horses sworn to triumph in the game | B |
| For the honour of Gyp's Diggings and the glory of the same | B |
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| And we took the challenge with us It was beautiful to see | C |
| With its lovely curly letters at its pretty filigree | C |
| It was very gently worded and it made us all feel good | D |
| For it breathed the sweetest sentiments of peace and brotherhood | D |
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| We had Chang and Trucker Hogan and the man who licked The Plug | E |
| Also Heggarty and Hoolahan and Peter Scott the pug | E |
| And we wore our knuckle dusters and we took a keg on tap | A |
| To our friendly game of football with The Dingoes at The Gap | A |
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| All the fellows came to meet us and we spoke like brothers dear | F |
| They'd a tip dray full of tucker and a waggon load of beer | F |
| And some lint done up in bundles so we reckoned there'd be fun | G |
| Ere our friendly game of football with the Dingo Club was done | G |
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| Their umpire was a homely man a stranger to the push | H |
| With a sweet deceitful calmness and a flavour of the bush | H |
| He declared he didn't know the game but promised on his oath | I |
| To see fair and square between the teams or paralyse them both | I |
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| Then we bounced the ball and started and for twenty minutes quite | J |
| We observed a proper courtesy and a heavenly sense of right | J |
| But Fitzpatrick tipped McDougal in a handy patch of mud | K |
| And the hero rose up chewing dirt and famishing for blood | K |
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| Simple Simonsen the umpire sorted out the happy pair | L |
| And he found a pitch to suit them and we left them fighting there | L |
| But The Conqueror and Cop Out met with cries of rage and pain | M |
| And wild horses couldn't part those ancient enemies again | N |
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| So the umpire dragged them from the ruck and pegged them off a patch | O |
| And then gave his best attention to the slugging and the match | O |
| You could hardly wish to come across a fairer minded chap | A |
| For a friendly game of football than that umpire at The Gap | A |
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| In a while young Smith and Henty and Blue Ben and Dick and Blake | P |
| Chose their partners from The Dingoes and went pounding for the cake | P |
| Timmy Hogan hit the umpire and was promptly put to bed | Q |
| 'Neath the ammunition waggon with a bolus on his head | Q |
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| Feeling lonely like Magee took on a local star named Bent | R |
| And four others started fighting to avoid an argument | S |
| So Simonsen postponed the game for fear some slight mishap | A |
| Might disturb the pleasant feeling then prevailing at The Gap | A |
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| Sixty seconds later twenty lively couples held the floor | T |
| And the air was full of whiskers and the grass was tinged with gore | T |
| And the umpire kept good order in the interests of peace | U |
| Whilst the people to oblige him sat severely on the p'lice | V |
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| Well we fought the friendly game out but I couldn't say who won | G |
| We were all stretched out on shutters when the glorious day was done | G |
| Both the constables had vanished one was carried off to bunk | W |
| And the umpire was exhausted and the populace was drunk | W |
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| But we've written out a paper with good Father Feeley's aid | X |
| Breathing brotherly affection and the challenge is conveyed | X |
| To the Dingo Club at Squatter's and another friendly game | B |
| Will eventuate at this end on the flat below the claim | B |
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| We have pressed The Gap to bring their central umpire if they can | Y |
| Here we honestly admire him as a fair and decent man | Y |
| And we're building on a pleasant time beside the Phoenix slums | Z |
| For The Giant feels he's got a call to plug him if he comes | Z |
Edward George Dyson
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