The Man From Waterloo (with Kind Regards To Banjo) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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It was the Man from Waterloo	A
When work in town was slack	B
Who took the track as bushmen do	A
And humped his swag out back	B
He tramped for months without a bob	C
For most the sheds were full	D
Until at last he got a job	C
At picking up the wool	D
He found the work was rather rough	E
But swore to see it through	A
For he was made of sterling stuff	E
The Man from Waterloo	A
The first remark was like a stab	F
That fell his ear upon	G
Twas There s another something scab	F
The boss has taken on	G
They couldn t let the towny be	H
They sneered like anything	I
They d mock him when he d sound the g	H
In words that end in ing	I
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There came a man from Ironbark	I
And at the shed he shore	J
He scoffed his victuals like a shark	I
And like a fiend he swore	J
He d shorn his flowing beard that day	K
He found it hard to reap	L
Because twas hot and in the way	K
While he was shearing sheep	L
His loaded fork in grimy holt	M
Was poised his jaws moved fast	N
Impatient till his throat could bolt	M
The mouthful taken last	N
He couldn t stand a something toff	E
Much less a jackaroo	J
And swore to take the trimmings off	E
The Man from Waterloo	A
	-
The towny saw he must be up	O
Or else be underneath	P
And so one day before them all	Q
He dared to clean his teeth	P
The men came running from the shed	R
And shouted Here s a lark	I
It s gone to clean its tooties said	R
The man from Ironbark	I
His feeble joke was much enjoyed	S
He sneered as bullies do	A
And with a scrubbing brush he guyed	A
The Man from Waterloo	A
	-
The Jackaroo made no remark	I
But peeled and waded in	T
And soon the Man from Ironbark	I
Had three teeth less to grin	T
And when they knew that he could fight	A
They swore to see him through	A
Because they saw that he was right	A
The Man from Waterloo	A
	-
Now in a shop in Sydney near	J
The Bottle on the Shelf	E
The tale is told with trimmings by	U
The Jackaroo himself	E
They made my life a hell he said	A
They wouldn t let me be	H
They set the bully of the shed	A
To take it out of me	H
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The dirt was on him like a sheath	P
He seldom washed his phiz	V
He sneered because I cleaned my teeth	P
I guess I dusted his	V
I treated them as they deserved	A
I signed on one or two	A
They won t forget me soon observed	A
The Man from Waterloo	A

Henry Lawson

The Man From Waterloo (with Kind Regards To Banjo) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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