The Squatter, Three Cornstalks, And The Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB D EFEF G GHGH G IJIJ G FIFI G IHIH G KLKL G HMHD G NONP G HFHF G QRSR G DRDR G TBTG G UVJVJ DThere was a Squatter in the land | A |
So runs the truthful tale I tell | B |
There also were three cornstalks and | C |
There also was the Squatter s Well | B |
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Singing slowly Sin and sorrer sin and sor rer sin and sor r r rer | D |
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The Squatter he was full of pluck | E |
The Cornstalks they were full of sin | F |
The well it was half full of muck | E |
That many rains had drifted in | F |
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Singing with increased feeling Sin c | G |
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The Squatter hired the Cornstalks Three | G |
To cleanse the well of mud and clay | H |
And so they started willing lee | G |
At five and twenty bob a day | H |
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Singing apprehensively Sin c | G |
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At five and twenty bob the lot | I |
That s eight and four the day would bring | J |
To each and so they thought they d got | I |
A rather soft and easy thing | J |
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Singing sadly Sin c | G |
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The Cornstalks cleaned the well within | F |
A day or two or thereabout | I |
And then they worked an awful sin | F |
A scheme to make the job last out | I |
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Singing reproachfully Sin and sorrer c | G |
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For when the well was cleaned out quite | I |
Of all its logs and muck and clay | H |
They tipped a drayload down at night | I |
And worked to haul it up next day | H |
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Singing dismally Sin c | G |
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But first the eldest christened Hodge | K |
He greased the dray wheel axles so | L |
The super wouldn t smell the dodge | K |
And couldn t let the Squatter know | L |
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Singing hopelessly Sin and sorrer c | G |
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The stuff they surfaced out each day | H |
With some surprise the Squatter saw | M |
He never dreamt the sand and clay | H |
Was three miles off the night before | D |
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Singing mournfully Sin and sorrer c | G |
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But he got something in his eye | N |
It wasn t green that s very plain | O |
He said the well was rather dry | N |
And they could fill it up again | P |
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Singing mournfully and dismally Sin and sorrer c | G |
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The Cornstalks went to work next day | H |
In hope of course of extra tin | F |
The Squatter watched and sad to say | H |
The mullock wouldn t all go in | F |
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Singing with great pathos Sin and sorrer c | G |
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And though the Cornstalks twigged the ruse | Q |
Whereby the boss had done em brown | R |
They argued that the clay was loose | S |
And wanted time to settle down | R |
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Singing hopelessly Sin and sorrer c | G |
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The boss began to rave and tear | D |
And yelled with a most awful frown | R |
I will not settle up I swear | D |
Till that there clay is settled down | R |
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Singing hopefully Sin c | G |
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Before my cheques yer Il pocket boys | T |
Yer ll put a mountain in a well | B |
The Cornstalks didn t make a noise | T |
They only murmured sadly | G |
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Singing triumphantly Sin and sorrer c | G |
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MORAL | U |
There is a moral to my rhyme | V |
A moral to the dirge I sing | J |
That when you do go in for crime | V |
You mustn t overdoo the thing | J |
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Singing more dismally than ever Sin and sorrer s i n and sor r r r rer | D |
Henry Lawson
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