Schneider Strauss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFDGA HDHDADIAD AJDKJLDLD AEAMDMD ANANBDBD| I vas all der country hunting for a man I vants to meet | A |
| I vas bursting me to schlog him on der cop | B |
| If mine hand I vonce can on him lay I'll hit him mit mine feet | A |
| Till he'll neffer know vhich side of him vas top | B |
| He vas quot Dandy Pat from Ballarat quot mit mighty gifts of gab | C |
| Und he got me to insure me for mine house | D |
| Put py shinks if I comes down on him I'll schlog him mit a schlab | C |
| Till he von't some more tricks play mit Schneider Strauss | D |
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| I vas built mine house mit packing cases roofed him in mit tin | E |
| Mit a gutter for der vater und a shpout | A |
| Und suppose some leetle cracks der vas vat let der vind come in | E |
| Dere vas lots of pigger vons to let it out | A |
| So efery night I drunk mine pipe und smoked mine lager peer | F |
| Und I felt shoost most ash happy ash a mouse | D |
| Till von efening apout two o'clock a voice falls on mine ear | G |
| Und it said quot Vas you dat man called Schneider Strauss quot | A |
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| Und der voice vas dat insurance man He coomed und sat him down | H |
| On a candle box und talked like eferythings | D |
| Py der vay der vords fell out of him you'd bet a half a crown | H |
| Dat his tongue vas on a see saw vorked mit shprings | D |
| Und he talked apout insurances und told me I could get | A |
| Lots of money if a fire purnt down mine house | D |
| So I paid him down two pound ker splash und says to him | I |
| quot You bet | A |
| Dat you von't find no plowflies catch on Schneider Strauss | D |
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| Dat insurance man he gafe me vat you call quot a polisee quot | A |
| Und I nearly laughed mine sides out mit der yoke | J |
| In apout a veek or sefen days mine house | D |
| Oh vere vas he | K |
| He vas gone und dere vas notings left but smoke | J |
| So der Gompany I vent to see to get mine leetle bill | L |
| Und I promised me a yolly big carouse | D |
| But like forty tousand tons of boulders falling down a hill | L |
| Did der troubles tumble down on Schneider Strauss | D |
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| Vhen der Gompany I seen he asked me vhat I was apout | A |
| Und I told him I vas coomed to get some tin | E |
| Put he called a pig policeman und shouted quot Roon him out quot | A |
| Dey put me on a canvas suit dey cut me off mine hair | M |
| In some vater cold like ice dey made me souse | D |
| Und der shtones I vas preaking opp for six months you can schvear | M |
| Dey vas not so bad proke up as Schneider Strauss | D |
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| Und mine house vas gone to plazes und mine money vas gone too | A |
| Dat insurance man vhere he vas who can tell | N |
| Und mine polisee mine lots of tin vas gone clean oop der flue | A |
| It vas turned to shmoke und dat vas gone ash well | N |
| Put I vant dat nice insurance man to schlog him on der cop | B |
| If I dropp on him he'll vish he vas a mouse | D |
| For I'll turn his outsides inside till I bet I'll make him shtop | B |
| Playing paddymelon tricks mit Schneider Strauss | D |
Thomas E. Spencer
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