Billys 'square Affair' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDBB EEBB FFBB GGBB HHBB IIBB JJBB KKBB LMBB| Long Bill the captain of the push was tired of his estate | A |
| And wished to change his life and win the love of something straight | A |
| Twas rumour d that the Gory B s had heard Long Bill declare | B |
| That he would turn respectable and wed a square affair | B |
| He craved the kiss of innocence his spirit longed to rise | C |
| The Crimson Streak his faithful piece grew hateful in his eyes | C |
| And though in her entirety the Crimson Streak was there | B |
| I grieve to state the Crimson Streak was not a square affair | B |
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| He wanted clothes a masher suit he wanted boots and hat | D |
| His girl had earned a quid or two he wouldn t part with that | D |
| And so he went to Brickfield Hill and from a draper there | B |
| He shook the proper kind of togs to fetch a square affair | B |
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| Long Bill went to the barber s shop and had a shave and singe | E |
| And from his narrow forehead combed his darling Mabel fringe | E |
| Long Bill put on a square cut and he brushed his boots with care | B |
| And roved about the Gardens till he mashed a square affair | B |
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| She was a tony servant girl from somewhere on the Shore | F |
| She dressed in style that suited Bill he could not wish for more | F |
| While in her guileless presence he had ceased to chew or swear | B |
| He knew the kind of barrack that can fetch a square affair | B |
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| To thus desert his donah old was risky and a sin | G |
| And twould have served him right if she had caved his garret in | G |
| The Gory Bleeders thought it too and warned him to take care | B |
| In case the Crimson Streak got scent of Billy s square affair | B |
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| He took her to the stalls twas dear but Billy said Wot odds | H |
| He couldn t take his square affair amongst the crimson gods | H |
| They wandered in the park at night and hugged each other there | B |
| But ah the Crimson Streak got wind of Billy s square affair | B |
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| The blank and space and stars she yelled the nameless crimson dash | I |
| I ll smash the blanky crimson and his square affair I ll smash | I |
| In short she drank and raved and shrieked and tore her crimson hair | B |
| And swore to murder Billy and to pound his square affair | B |
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| And so one summer evening as the day was growing dim | J |
| She watched her bloke go out and foxed his square affair and him | J |
| That night the park was startled by the shrieks that rent the air | B |
| The Streak had gone for Billy and for Billy s square affair | B |
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| The gory push had foxed the Streak they foxed her to the park | K |
| And they of course were close at hand to see the bleedin lark | K |
| A cop arrived in time to hear a gory B declare | B |
| Gor blar me here s the Red Streak foul of Billy s square affair | B |
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| Now Billy scowls about the Rocks his manly beauty marr d | L |
| And Billy s girl upon her ed is doin six months ard | M |
| Bill s swivel eye is in a sling his heart is in despair | B |
| And in the Sydney Orspital lies Billy s square affair | B |
Henry Lawson
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