Billy Vickers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GBGB HIHJ KLKM NONO PJPJ QRQR SOSO TUTU TJTJ VTVTWOWOXOXO KRKR YOYO ABAB TTTT ZBZB A2TA2T OOOO B2OC2O D2TD2T E2OE2O F2TF2TNo song is this of leaf and bird | A |
And gracious waters flowing | B |
I'm sick at heart for I have heard | A |
Big Billy Vickers blowing | B |
He'd never take a leading place | C |
In chambers legislative | D |
This booby with the vacant face | C |
This hoddy doddy native | D |
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Indeed I'm forced to say aside | E |
To you O reader solely | F |
He only wants the horns and hide | E |
To be a bullock wholly | F |
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But like all noodles he is vain | G |
And when his tongue is wagging | B |
I feel inclined to copy Cain | G |
And drop him for his bragging | B |
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He being Bush bred stands of course | H |
Six feet his dirty socks in | I |
His lingo is confined to horse | H |
And plough and pig and oxen | J |
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Two years ago he'd less to say | K |
Within his little circuit | L |
But now he has besides a dray | K |
A team of twelve to work it | M |
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No wonder is it that he feels | N |
Inclined to clack and rattle | O |
About his bullocks and his wheels | N |
He owns a dozen cattle | O |
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In short to be exact and blunt | P |
In his own estimation | J |
He's out and out the head and front | P |
Top sawyer of creation | J |
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For mark me he can sit a buck | Q |
For hours and hours together | R |
And never horse has had the luck | Q |
To pitch him from the leather | R |
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If ever he should have a spill | S |
Upon the grass or gravel | O |
Be sure of this the saddle will | S |
With Billy Vickers travel | O |
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At punching oxen you may guess | T |
There's nothing out can camp him | U |
He has in fact the slouch and dress | T |
Which bullock driver stamp him | U |
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I do not mean to give offence | T |
But I have vainly striven | J |
To ferret out the difference | T |
'Twixt driver and the driven | J |
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Of course the statements herein made | V |
In every other stanza | T |
Are Billy's own and I'm afraid | V |
They're stark extravaganza | T |
I feel constrained to treat as trash | W |
His noisy fiddle faddle | O |
About his doings with the lash | W |
His feats upon the saddle | O |
But grant he knows his way about | X |
Or grant that he is silly | O |
There cannot be the slightest doubt | X |
Of Billy's faith in Billy | O |
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Of all the doings of the day | K |
His ignorance is utter | R |
But he can quote the price of hay | K |
The current rate of butter | R |
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His notions of our leading men | Y |
Are mixed and misty very | O |
He knows a cochin china hen | Y |
He never speaks of Berry | O |
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As you'll assume he hasn't heard | A |
Of Madame Patti's singing | B |
But I will stake my solemn word | A |
He knows what maize is bringing | B |
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Surrounded by majestic peaks | T |
By lordly mountain ranges | T |
Where highest voice of thunder speaks | T |
His aspect never changes | T |
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The grand Pacific there beyond | Z |
His dirty hut is glowing | B |
He only sees a big salt pond | Z |
O'er which his grain is going | B |
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The sea that covers half the sphere | A2 |
With all its stately speeches | T |
Is held by Bill to be a mere | A2 |
Broad highway for his peaches | T |
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Through Nature's splendid temples he | O |
Plods under mountains hoary | O |
But he has not the eyes to see | O |
Their grandeur and their glory | O |
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A bullock in a biped's boot | B2 |
I iterate is Billy | O |
He crushes with a careless foot | C2 |
The touching water lily | O |
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I've said enough I'll let him go | D2 |
If he could read these verses | T |
He'd pepper me for hours I know | D2 |
With his peculiar curses | T |
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But this is sure he'll never change | E2 |
His manners loud and flashy | O |
Nor learn with neatness to arrange | E2 |
His clothing cheap and trashy | O |
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Like other louts he'll jog along | F2 |
And swig at shanty liquors | T |
And chew and spit Here ends the song | F2 |
Of Mr Billy Vickers | T |
Henry Kendall
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