A Little Mistake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHG IJKJ LMNM ONNN PNNN QRQR SMTM UVNV WNVN NVNV XYXZ| Tis a yarn I heard of a new chum trap | A |
| On the edge of the Never Never | B |
| Where the dead men lie and the black men lie | C |
| And the bushman lies for ever | B |
| Twas the custom still with the local blacks | D |
| To cadge in the altogether | B |
| They had less respect for our feelings then | E |
| And more respect for the weather | B |
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| The trooper said to the sergeant s wife | F |
| Sure I wouldn t seem unpleasant | G |
| But there s women and childer about the place | H |
| And barrin a lady s present | G |
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| There s ould King Billy wid niver a stitch | I |
| For a month may the drought cremate him | J |
| Bar the wan we put in his dirty head | K |
| Where his old Queen Mary bate him | J |
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| God give her strength and a peaceful reign | L |
| Though she flies in a bit av a passion | M |
| If ony wan hints that her shtoyle an luks | N |
| Are a trifle behind the fashion | M |
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| There s two of the boys by the stable now | O |
| Be the powers I ll teach the varmints | N |
| To come wid nought but a shirt apiece | N |
| And wid dirt for their nayther garmints | N |
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| Howld on ye blaggards How dare ye dare | P |
| To come widin sight av the houses | N |
| I ll give ye a warnin all for wance | N |
| An a couple of ould pair of trousers | N |
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| They took the pants as a child a toy | Q |
| The constable s words beguiling | R |
| A smile of something beside their joy | Q |
| And they took their departure smiling | R |
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| And that very day when the sun was low | S |
| Two blackfellows came to the station | M |
| They were filled with the courage of Queensland rum | T |
| And bursting with indignation | M |
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| The constable noticed with growing ire | U |
| They d apparently dressed in a hurry | V |
| And their language that day I am sorry to say | N |
| Mostly consisted of plurry | V |
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| The constable heard and he wished himself back | W |
| In the land of the bogs and the ditches | N |
| You plurry big tight britches p liceman what for | V |
| You gibbit our missuses britches | N |
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| And this was a case I am bound to confess | N |
| Where civilisation went under | V |
| Had one of the gins been less modest in dress | N |
| He d never have made such a blunder | V |
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| And here let the moral be duly made known | X |
| And hereafter signed and attested | Y |
| We should place more reliance on that which is shown | X |
| And less upon what is suggested | Z |
Henry Lawson
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