Sister Ann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCDED FGFGHIHHIBI JKJKLFLLFMF JNJNOPOOPQR STSTUVUUVRV WXWNYPYYPNP TZTZA2HA2A2HB2H| I'm lyin' in a narrow bed | A |
| 'N' starin' at a wall | B |
| Where all is white my plastered head | A |
| Is whitest of it all | B |
| My life is jist a whitewashed blank | C |
| With flamin' spurts of pain | D |
| I dunno who I've got to thank | C |
| I've p'raps been trod on by a tank | C |
| Or caught out in the rain | D |
| When skies were peltin' fish plates bricks | E |
| 'n' lengths of bullock chain | D |
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| I'm lyin' here a sulky swine | F |
| 'N' hatin' of the bloke | G |
| Who's in the doss right next to mine | F |
| With 'arf his girders broke | G |
| He never done no 'arm t me | H |
| 'N' he's pertickler ill | I |
| But I have got him snouted see | H |
| 'N' all old earth beside but she | H |
| Come with the chemist's swill | I |
| 'N' puts a kind soft 'and on mine 'n' all | B |
| my nark is still | I |
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| She ain't a beaut she's thirty two | J |
| She scales eleven stone | K |
| But 'struth I didn't think it true | J |
| There was such women grown | K |
| She's nurse 'n' sister mum 'n' dad | L |
| 'N' all that straight 'n' fine | F |
| In every girl I ever had | L |
| When Gabr'el comes 'n' all the glad | L |
| Young saints are tipped the sign | F |
| You'll see this donah take her place first | M |
| angel in the line | F |
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| She's sweet 'n' cool her touch is dew | J |
| Wet lilies on yer brow | N |
| Jist 'ark et me what never knew | J |
| Of lilies up to now | N |
| She fits your case in 'arf a wink | O |
| 'N' knows how why 'n' where | P |
| If you are five days gone in drink | O |
| N' hoverin' on perdition's brink | O |
| It is her brother there | P |
| God how pain will take a man and | Q |
| He has spoke with her | R |
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| I dunno if she ever sleeps | S |
| Ten minutes at a stretch | T |
| A dozen times a night she creeps | S |
| To soothe a screamin' wretch | T |
| Who has a tiger headed Hun | U |
| A gnawin' at his chest | V |
| 'N' when the long 'ard flght is won | U |
| 'N' he is still 'n' nearly done | U |
| She smiles down on his rest | V |
| 'N' minds me of a mother with a baby at her | R |
| breast | V |
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| The curly kid we cuddled when | W |
| There was no splendid row | X |
| It seemed a little matter then | W |
| But feels so wondrous now | N |
| It's part of her She's Joan iv Ark | Y |
| Flo Nightingale all fair | P |
| 'N' dinkum dames who've made their mark | Y |
| If she comes tip toe in the dark | Y |
| We blighters feel her there | P |
| The whole pack perks up like a bird 'n' | N |
| sorter takes the air | P |
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| She chats you in a 'Ighland botch | T |
| But if our Sis saw fit | Z |
| To pitch Hindoo instead of Scotch | T |
| I'd get the hang of it | Z |
| Because her heart it is that talks | A2 |
| What now is plain to me | H |
| At war where bloody murder stalks | A2 |
| 'N' Nick his hottest samples hawks | A2 |
| I have been given to see | H |
| What simple human kindness is what | B2 |
| brotherhood may be | H |
Edward George Dyson
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