To A Billy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDBDBEFEF GHGHIBIB JKJKLMLM| OLD BILLY battered brown and black | A |
| With many days of camping | B |
| Companion of the bulging sack | A |
| And friend in all our tramping | B |
| How often on the Friday night | C |
| Your cubic measure testing | B |
| With jam and tea we stuffed you tight | C |
| Before we started nesting | B |
| How often in the moonlight pale | D |
| Through gums and gullies toiling | B |
| We ve been the first the hill to scale | D |
| The first to watch you boiling | B |
| When at the lane the tent was spread | E |
| The silver wattle under | F |
| And early shafts of rosy red | E |
| Cleft sea born mists asunder | F |
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| And so old Billy you recall | G |
| A host of sun burnt faces | H |
| And bring us back again to all | G |
| The best of camping places | H |
| True flavour of the bush you bear | I |
| Of camp and its surrounding | B |
| Of freedom and of open air | I |
| Of healthy life abounding | B |
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| You bring us more with those we love | J |
| We watched you boil and bubble | K |
| And in the sunny skies above | J |
| Forgot each schoolboy trouble | K |
| So not without a kindly glance | L |
| We eye you in the study | M |
| Although you ve met with some mischance | L |
| Although you re black and muddy | M |
James Lister Cuthbertson
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