German Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEED FGFGCDBBD HIHIJDKKD LMLMJDNND OPOPIDDDD QBQBRDSSD TLTLRDEED| SKIRTING the swamp and the tangled scrub | A |
| Tramping and turning amidst the trees | B |
| Carrying nothing but blankets and grub | A |
| Careless of pleasure and health and ease | B |
| Hither and thither with never a goal | C |
| Heavy and solemn and stiff and slow | D |
| Seeking a track and a long lost line | E |
| Blazed avay to dot lead of mine | E |
| Restless and rickety German Joe | D |
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| Down in the gully and up the range | F |
| Stung by the gale and the hate hot sun | G |
| Never a greeting to give in change | F |
| Never a tip from the nearest run | G |
| Seeking a guide to a golden hole | C |
| Lost in the lone land long ago | D |
| Left in the keep of the hills and trees | B |
| Jealous to have and to hold are these | B |
| Hope you may get it though German Joe | D |
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| Likely old yarn for a horse marine | H |
| Struck it you say at the river head | I |
| Back where the bellowing bunyip s seen | H |
| Out beyond everywhere rich and red | I |
| Left it for tucker and lost the track | J |
| Blazed till your arm couldn t strike a blow | D |
| Gravel that gleams with the golden stuff | K |
| Nuggets shust like as der plums in duff | K |
| What are you giving us German Joe | D |
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| Blaze Yes you strike for the Granite Stair | L |
| Make to the left when you cross the creek | M |
| South till you meet with a monkey bear | L |
| Tramp in his tracks for about a week | M |
| Then you can travel the sky line back | J |
| So long old chap if you re bound to go | D |
| Don t you forget when you re rich and great | N |
| Who laid you on to the lost lead mate | N |
| Mad as a hatter is German Joe | D |
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| Laugh as they may they will stand his friends | O |
| Right as rain when the old man takes | P |
| Down to his bunk in the hut and spends | O |
| Seven weeks fighting the fever and shakes | P |
| Muttering still of his lucky lead | I |
| Vhisper I leds you all in der know | D |
| Den you pe richer nor as der pank | D |
| Boys he s a man if he is a crank | D |
| Whisky and physic for German Joe | D |
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| Now he s abroad in a wild dream land | Q |
| Baring his breast to the river breeze | B |
| Out where the rock ribbed ridges stand | Q |
| Telling his tale to the secret trees | B |
| Swift as the shadows his visions glide | R |
| Over the plains where the mad winds blow | D |
| Cover his face now and carve a stone | S |
| Henceforth his spirit must seek alone | S |
| Dead as a door nail is German Joe | D |
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| Bushmen have yarned of a ghost that went | T |
| Blazing a track from the Granite Stair | L |
| Down to a shaft and a tattered tent | T |
| Many days journey from anywhere | L |
| Others have said that the bushmen lied | R |
| Liars or not it is true we know | D |
| Men have discovered a golden mine | E |
| Out in the track of an old blazed line | E |
| Led by the spirit of German Joe | D |
Edward George Dyson
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