Albert Down Under Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GGHI JKLJ LLGL MNON PLOL HQHQ GGPG GLLL OLLL HGOG ORLR GHHH OLJL GJLJ SLHL LLHL| Albert were what you'd call thwarted | A |
| He had long had an ambition which | B |
| Were to save up and go to Australia | C |
| The saving up that were the hitch | B |
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| He'd a red money box on the pot shelf | D |
| A post office thing made of tin | E |
| But with him and his Dad and the bread knife | F |
| It never had anything in | E |
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| He were properly held up for bobbins | G |
| As the folk in the mill used to say | G |
| Till he hit on a simple solution | H |
| He'd go as a young stowaway | I |
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| He studied the sailing lists daily | J |
| And at last found a ship as would do | K |
| S S Tosser a freighter from Fleetwood | L |
| Via Cape Horn to Wooloomooloo | J |
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| He went off next evening to Fleetwood | L |
| And found her there loaded and coaled | L |
| Slipped over the side in the darkness | G |
| And downstairs and into the hold | L |
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| The hold it were choked up with cargo | M |
| He groped with his hands in the gloom | N |
| Squeezed through bars of what felt like a grating | O |
| And found he had plenty of room | N |
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| Some straw had been spilled in one corner | P |
| He thankfully threw himself flat | L |
| He thought he could hear someone breathing | O |
| But he were too tired to fret about that | L |
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| When he woke they were out in mid ocean | H |
| He turned and in light which were dim | Q |
| Looked straight in the eyes of a lion | H |
| That were lying there looking at him | Q |
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| His heart came right up in his tonsils | G |
| As he gazed at that big yellow face | G |
| Then it smiled and they both said together | P |
| Well isn't the world a small place | G |
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| The lion were none other than Wallace | G |
| He were going to Sydney too | L |
| To fulfil a short starring engagement | L |
| In a cage at Taronga Park Zoo | L |
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| As they talked they heard footsteps approaching | O |
| Someone comes whispered Wallace Quick hide | L |
| He opened his mouth to the fullest | L |
| And Albert sprang nimbly inside | L |
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| 'Twere Captain on morning inspection | H |
| When he saw Wallace shamming to doze | G |
| He picked up a straw from his bedding | O |
| And started to tickle his nose | G |
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| Now Wallace could never stand tickling | O |
| He let out a mumbling roar | R |
| And before he could do owt about it | L |
| He'd sneezed Albert out on the floor | R |
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| The Captain went white to the wattles | G |
| He said I'm a son of a gun | H |
| He had heard of beasts bringing up children | H |
| But were first time as he'd seen it done | H |
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| He soon had the radio crackling | O |
| And flashing the tale far and wide | L |
| Of the lad who'd set out for Australia | J |
| Stowed away in a lion's inside | L |
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| The quay it were jammed with reporters | G |
| When they docked on Australian soil | J |
| They didn't pretend to believe it | L |
| But 'twere too good a story to spoil | J |
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| And Albert soon picked up the language | S |
| When he first saw the size of the fruit | L |
| There was no more by gum now or Champion | H |
| It were Whacko Too right and You beaut | L |
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| They gave him a wonderful fortnight | L |
| Then from a subscription they made | L |
| Sent him back as a Parcel for Britain | H |
| Carriage forward and all ex's paid | L |
Marriott Edgar
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