A New Girl Up At White-s Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI CJCJKLKL EEEECMCM NONOPEPE NQNQIRIR CBCBESES

THERE S a fresh track down the paddockA
Through the lightwoods to the creekB
And I notice Billy CraddockA
And Maloney do not speakB
And The Snag is slyly bitterC
When he s criticising BillD
And there s quite a foreign glitterC
On the fellows at the millD
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Sid M Mahon s turned out a dandyE
With a masher coat and tieF
And the engine driver SandyE
Curls his whiskers on the slyF
All the boys wear paper collarsG
And their tombstone shirts of nightsH
So it s ten to one in dollarsG
There s a new girl up at White sI
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She s a charmer from the riverC
But she steeps the lads in gloomJ
With her blue eyes all a quiverC
And her hair like wattle bloomJ
Though she s pretty and beguilingK
And so lit up like with funL
That the flowers turn to her smilingK
Just as if she was the sunL
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But I wish she d leave the valleyE
For the camp is dull to meE
Now the mill hands never rallyE
For the regulation spreeE
And there s not another jokerC
Gives a tinker s curse for napM
Or will take a hand at pokerC
Or at euchre with a chapM
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Tom won t stir us with his fiddleN
By the boilers as he didO
While Bob stepped it in the middleN
And we passed the billy lidO
Ah we had some gay old nights thereP
But the boys now don t agreeE
And they hang about at White s thereP
When they ve togged up after teaE
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With the gloves we have no battleN
Now they sneak away and moonQ
Round with White discussing cattleN
All the Sunday afternoonQ
There s a want of old uprightnessI
Too has come upon the pushR
And a sort of cold politenessI
That s not called for in the bushR
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They re all off too in that quarterC
Kate goes sev ral times a weekB
Seeing Andy Kelly s daughterC
Jimmy s sister up the creekB
And this difference seems a pityE
Since their chances are so slimS
While they are running after KittyE
She is running after JimS

Edward George Dyson



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