German Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEED FGFGCDBBD HIHIJDKKD LMLMJDNND OPOPIDDDD QBQBRDSSD TLTLRDEEDSKIRTING 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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