A New Girl Up At White-s Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI CJCJKLKL EEEECMCM NONOPEPE NQNQIRIR CBCBESESTHERE 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 | I |
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She s a charmer from the river | C |
But she steeps the lads in gloom | J |
With her blue eyes all a quiver | C |
And her hair like wattle bloom | J |
Though she s pretty and beguiling | K |
And so lit up like with fun | L |
That the flowers turn to her smiling | K |
Just as if she was the sun | L |
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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 | M |
Or will take a hand at poker | C |
Or at euchre with a chap | M |
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Tom won t stir us with his fiddle | N |
By the boilers as he did | O |
While Bob stepped it in the middle | N |
And we passed the billy lid | O |
Ah we had some gay old nights there | P |
But the boys now don t agree | E |
And they hang about at White s there | P |
When they ve togged up after tea | E |
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With the gloves we have no battle | N |
Now they sneak away and moon | Q |
Round with White discussing cattle | N |
All the Sunday afternoon | Q |
There s a want of old uprightness | I |
Too has come upon the push | R |
And a sort of cold politeness | I |
That s not called for in the bush | R |
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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 | S |
While they are running after Kitty | E |
She is running after Jim | S |
Edward George Dyson
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