The Ballad Of Mabel Clare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDBEBEFGFG HIHIJKJK GLGLMBMB JNJFOPOP IQFQRSRS TITIUMUM VWVWXYXZ JA2JA2XUXU B2C2B2C2UEUE D2BD2BFBFB JEJEEUEU EJEFZEZE JFJEIEIF EBEBBIBI OEOEIZIZ OZEZEEEEYe children of the Land of Gold | A |
I sing a song to you | B |
And if the jokes are somewhat old | A |
The main idea is new | B |
So be it sung by hut and tent | C |
Where tall the native grows | D |
And understand the song is meant | C |
For singing through the nose | D |
There dwelt a hard old cockatoo | B |
On western hills far out | E |
Where everything is green and blue | B |
Except of course in drought | E |
A crimson Anarchist was he | F |
Held other men in scorn | G |
Yet preached that ev ry man was free | F |
And also ekal born | G |
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He lived in his ancestral hut | H |
His missus wasn t there | I |
And there was no one with him but | H |
His daughter Mabel Clare | I |
Her eyes and hair were like the sun | J |
Her foot was like a mat | K |
Her cheeks a trifle overdone | J |
She was a democrat | K |
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A manly independence born | G |
Among the trees she had | L |
She treated womankind with scorn | G |
And often cursed her dad | L |
She hated swells and shining lights | M |
For she had seen a few | B |
And she believed in women s rights | M |
She mostly got em too | B |
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A stranger at the neighb ring run | J |
Sojourned the squatter s guest | N |
He was unknown to anyone | J |
But like a swell was dress d | F |
He had an eyeglass to his eye | O |
A collar to his ears | P |
His feet were made to tread the sky | O |
His mouth was formed for sneers | P |
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He wore the latest toggery | I |
The loudest thing in ties | Q |
Twas generally reckoned he | F |
Was something in disguise | Q |
But who he was or whence he came | R |
Was long unknown except | S |
Unto the squatter who the name | R |
And noble secret kept | S |
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And strolling in the noontide heat | T |
Beneath the blinding glare | I |
This noble stranger chanced to meet | T |
The radiant Mabel Clare | I |
She saw at once he was a swell | U |
According to her lights | M |
But ah tis very sad to tell | U |
She met him oft of nights | M |
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And strolling through a moonlit gorge | V |
She chatted all the while | W |
Of Ingersoll and Henry George | V |
And Bradlaugh and Carlyle | W |
In short he learned to love the girl | X |
And things went on like this | Y |
Until he said he was an Earl | X |
And asked her to be his | Z |
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Oh say no more Lord Kawlinee | J |
Oh say no more she said | A2 |
Oh say no more Lord Kawlinee | J |
I wish that I was dead | A2 |
My head is in a hawful whirl | X |
The truth I dare not tell | U |
I am a democratic girl | X |
And cannot wed a swell | U |
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Oh love he cried but you forget | B2 |
That you are most unjust | C2 |
Twas not my fault that I was set | B2 |
Within the upper crust | C2 |
Heed not the yarns the poets tell | U |
Oh darling do not doubt | E |
A simple lord can love as well | U |
As any rouseabout | E |
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For you I ll give my fortune up | D2 |
I d go to work for you | B |
I ll put the money in the cup | D2 |
And drop the title too | B |
Oh fly with me Oh fly with me | F |
Across the mountains blue | B |
Hoh fly with me Hoh fly with me | F |
That very night she flew | B |
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They took the train and journeyed down | J |
Across the range they sped | E |
Until they came to Sydney town | J |
Where shortly they were wed | E |
And still upon the western wild | E |
Admiring teamsters tell | U |
How Mabel s father cursed his child | E |
For clearing with a swell | U |
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What ails my bird this bridal night | E |
Exclaimed Lord Kawlinee | J |
What ails my own this bridal night | E |
O love confide in me | F |
Oh now she said that I am yaws | Z |
You ll let me weep I must | E |
I did desert the people s cause | Z |
To join the upper crust | E |
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O proudly smiled his lordship then | J |
His chimney pot he floor d | F |
Look up my love and smile again | J |
For I am not a lord | E |
His eye glass from his eye he tore | I |
The dickey from his breast | E |
And turned and stood his bride before | I |
A rouseabout confess d | F |
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Unknown I ve loved you long he said | E |
And I have loved you true | B |
A shearing in your guv ner s shed | E |
I learned to worship you | B |
I do not care for place or pelf | B |
For now my love I m sure | I |
That you will love me for myself | B |
And not because I m poor | I |
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To prove your love I spent my cheque | O |
To buy this swell rig out | E |
So fling your arms about my neck | O |
For I m a rouseabout | E |
At first she gave a startled cry | I |
Then safe from care s alarms | Z |
She sigh d a soul subduing sigh | I |
And sank into his arms | Z |
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He pawned the togs and home he took | O |
His bride in all her charms | Z |
The proud old cockatoo received | E |
The pair with open arms | Z |
And long they lived the faithful bride | E |
The noble rouseabout | E |
And if she wasn t satisfied | E |
She never let it out | E |
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