Not Too Bad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHEHDEIE JKLKEDMD J GGELLL LNLNDED IEGEIII I IIELIL GHKHGEOE EIHIIIIIDe cottage vas close py der garden gate | A |
It vas not mighdty hardt to find it | B |
A couple of gum trees grew shoost in front | C |
Und a pig shty grew shoost pehind it | B |
Dere vos milk cows und sheep on der clover flat | D |
Und a creek vhere der vater ran | E |
Der misdress of all vas der Vidder McCaul | F |
Und I vos her handy man | E |
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Ach shveet vas der ploom on der orchard trees | G |
Und lofely der flowers in shpring | H |
But der vidder's daughter Yemima Ann | E |
She vas shveeter ash efferyting | H |
She valked on der ferry ground I lofed | D |
Und her eyes were so lofely prown | E |
Dat vheneffer I see dat she looked at me | I |
Vhy I felt mineself top side down | E |
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I lofed mine life ash I lofed dat girl | J |
Und a vik from her tvinkling eye | K |
Ash I helped her moundt on der old prown mare | L |
Made me feel apout ten feet high | K |
Vhen she cantered home ash der sun vent down | E |
Und I lifted her oop to der ground | D |
Vhen I felt her yoomp mine heardt vent boomp | M |
Und I felt apout twelfe feet round | D |
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So I shpeaks to mineself ' I must hafe dat girl | J |
For mithout her I aint no use ' | - |
So I tole her von day vhat a duck she vas | G |
Und she tell me I vas a coose | G |
Den a shearer coomed town from der Lachlan | E |
Pout ash tall ash a wool shed toor | L |
Und he took her avay on a pullock tray | L |
Und she neffer comes pack some more | L |
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So I vent vat you calls ' clean off your shoomps ' | - |
I crinds oop mine teeth und schvear | L |
I knocks mineself town mit a pag of shaff | N |
Und I picks mineself oop py mine hair | L |
I shvears I could hang and trown mineself | N |
Und fill mineself oop mit shot too | D |
Put shoost vhen I run to get mine gun | E |
Der vidder she tole me not to | D |
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She said ash she fried me some eggs for mine tea | I |
Und her tears shpluttered in der pan | E |
'Vas it not goot enough to her daughter lose | G |
Mithout losing her handy man | E |
Vas der fish not askh good vhat vas in der sea | I |
Ash der fish vhat vas taken oudt | I |
If der shnapper I sought vas got shnapped oop und caught | I |
Dere vas plenty more shvimmin spout ' | - |
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So I said 'Do you know vhere dat fish to find | I |
Apout vat you gone und told me ' | - |
Und I town sat mineself py der vidder's side | I |
Und the vidder she neffer shcold me | I |
Ash der vidder she mix oop her tears mit mine | E |
I got prave und mine heardt grew polder | L |
So mine left arm I placed round der vidder's vaist | I |
Und der vidder's head fell on mine shoulter | L |
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Ach shveet vas der shmell from der new fried eggs | G |
Vhich der vidder vas shoost peen frying | H |
Und shveet vas der glance from der vidder's eye | K |
Mit her head on mine shoulter lying | H |
If I gissed her ten times I gissed her vonce | G |
Pefore effer I thought of shtoppin | E |
Und der pig pullock pell in der milk pan fell | O |
Und ve neffer heardt it droppin | E |
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I takes mine seat in der parlour now | E |
In der gitchen I hangs mine hat | I |
Und der milk cows feed shoost across der creek | H |
Und der sheep on her clover flat | I |
I shnapped oop der fish dat vas shvimmin apout | I |
Und I neffer no more got mad | I |
Und I tinks of a night ash mine shmoke pipe I light | I |
Dat I didn't do NOT TOO BAD | I |
Thomas E. Spencer
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