Those Foreign Engineers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK AAJJ LLMM| Old Ivan McIvanovitch with knitted brow of care | A |
| Has climbed up from the engine room to get a breath of air | A |
| He slowly wipes the grease and sweat from hairy face and neck | B |
| And from beneath his bushy brows he glowers around the deck | B |
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| The weirdest Russian in the fleet whose words are strange to hear | C |
| He seems to run the battleship though but an engineer | D |
| He is not great he has no rank and he is far from rich | E |
| Tis strange the admiral salutes old McIvanovitch | E |
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| He gives the order Whusky ere he goes below once more | F |
| And Whusky is a Russian word I never heard before | F |
| Perhaps some Tartar dialect because you know you ll meet | G |
| Some very various Muscovites aboard the Baltic fleet | G |
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| And on another battleship that sailed out from Japan | H |
| The boss of all the engineers you ll find another man | H |
| With flaming hair and eyes like steel and he is six foot three | I |
| His name is Jock McNogo and a fearsome Jap is he | I |
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| He wears a beard upon his chest his face you won t forget | J |
| His like was never found amongst the heathen idols yet | J |
| His words are awesome words to hear his lightest smile is grim | K |
| And daily in the engine room the heathen bow to him | K |
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| Now if the fleets meet in the North and settle matters there | A |
| Say how will McIvanovitch and Jock McNogo fare | A |
| But if you ken that Russian and that Jap you needn t fret | J |
| They ll hae a drap or maybe twa some nicht in Glesca yet | J |
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| Those foreigners will ship again aboard some foreign boat | L |
| And do their best to drive her through and keep the tub afloat | L |
| They ll stir the foreign greasers up and prove from whence they came | M |
| And all to win the bawbees for the wife and bairns at hame | M |
Henry Lawson
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