Bill And Jim Fall Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGG HHII HHJJ KKLL MMNN OOPP QQRR| Bill and Jim are mates no longer they would scorn the name of mate | A |
| Those two bushmen hate each other with a soul consuming hate | A |
| Yet erstwhile they were as brothers should be tho they never will | B |
| Ne er were mates to one another half so true as Jim and Bill | B |
| Bill was one of those who have to argue every day or die | C |
| Though of course he swore twas Jim who always itched to argufy | D |
| They would on most abstract subjects contradict each other flat | E |
| And at times in lurid language they were mates in spite of that | E |
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| Bill believed the Bible story re the origin of him | F |
| He was sober he was steady he was orthodox while Jim | F |
| Who we grieve to state was always getting into drunken scrapes | G |
| Held that man degenerated from degenerated apes | G |
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| Bill was British to the backbone he was loyal through and through | H |
| Jim declared that Blucher s Prussians won the fight at Waterloo | H |
| And he hoped the coloured races would in time wipe out the white | I |
| And it rather strained their mateship but it didn t burst it quite | I |
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| They battled round in Maoriland they saw it through and through | H |
| And argued on the rata what it was and how it grew | H |
| Bill believed the vine grew downward Jim declared that it grow up | J |
| Yet they always shared their fortunes to the final bite and sup | J |
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| Night after night they argued how the kangaroo was born | K |
| And each one held the other s stupid theories in scorn | K |
| Bill believed it was born inside Jim declared it was born out | L |
| Each as to his own opinions never had the slightest doubt | L |
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| They left the earth to argue and they went among the stars | M |
| Re conditions atmospheric Bill believed the hair of Mars | M |
| Was too thin for human bein s to exist in mortal states | N |
| Jim declared it was too thick if anythin yet they were mates | N |
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| Bill for Freetrade Jim Protection argued as to which was best | O |
| For the welfare of the workers and their mateship stood the test | O |
| They argued over what they meant and didn t mean at all | P |
| And what they said and didn t and were mates in spite of all | P |
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| Till one night the two together tried to light a fire in camp | Q |
| When they had a leaky billy and the wood was scarce and damp | Q |
| And No matter let the moral be distinctly understood | R |
| One alone should tend the fire while the other brings the wood | R |
Henry Lawson
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