The Wantaritencant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB AABB BBBB BBBB| It watched me in the cradle laid and from my boyhood s home | A |
| It glared above my shoulder blade when I wrote my first pome | A |
| It s sidled by me ever since with greeny eyes aslant | B |
| It is the thing O Priest and Prince that wants to write but can t | B |
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| It yells and slobbers mows and whines It follows everywhere | C |
| Tis gloating on these very lines with red and baleful glare | C |
| It murders friendship love and truth It makes the reader pant | B |
| It ruins editorial youth the Wantaritencant | B |
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| Its slime is ever on my work and ever on my name | A |
| No toil nor trouble does It shirk for It will write all the same | A |
| It tantalized when great thoughts burned in trouble and in want | B |
| It makes it hell for all concerned the Wantaritencant | B |
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| And now that I would gladly die or rest my weary mind | B |
| I cannot rest to think that I must leave the Thing behind | B |
| Its green rot damns the dead for sure that greatest curse extant | B |
| Twill kill Australian literature the Wantaritencant | B |
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| You cannot kill or keep It still or ease It off a bit | B |
| It talks about Itself until the world believes in It | B |
| It is a Scare a Fright a Ghast a Gibber and a Rant | B |
| A future Horror and a Past the Wantaritencant | B |
Henry Lawson
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