The Rouseabout Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDC AEADFCGC HEHEIJAJ AAAAKLAM NOAOAKPK AAAAAQRQ SATAUAKAIn a humble hut on a scrubby flat | A |
Near the land of the setting sun | B |
Lived a simple but honest rouseabout | A |
Who rejoiced in the name of Dunn | B |
He could warble as sweet as a bandicoot | A |
He could dance like a kangaroo | C |
His age it was just about four feet ten | D |
And his height about thirty two | C |
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He worshipped a beautiful female maid | A |
Who lived on a distant plain | E |
Whose husband had gone to a far off land | A |
And had never come back again | D |
She had bright blue hair she had rosy eyes | F |
And her cheeks were of golden hue | C |
So Tommy set off as the sun went down | G |
To tell her he loved her true | C |
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He traversed the hills and the mountain peaks | H |
He climbed up a rugged plain | E |
He swam the beds of the dried up creeks | H |
And he tramped o'er the raging main | E |
He saw not the wind on the distant hills | I |
He heard not the rising moon | J |
For his soul was dead and his burning head | A |
Was as calm as a big monsoon | J |
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His eye like a hurricane roared aloud | A |
His voice like the lightning flashed | A |
The blustering blizzard it boomed and burst | A |
As on through the dust he splashed | A |
He rode on a flea bitten chestnut mare | K |
With a patent pneumatic tyre | L |
And the sparks from the feet of his flying steed | A |
Set Billabong Creek on fire | M |
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He leapt from the train at the half way house | N |
And stood at the maiden's door | O |
He wept at the sight of that dear old spot | A |
Which he never had seen before | O |
He stood on his head at the maiden's feet | A |
And he begged her his lot to share | K |
Then brushing tear from his glist'ning ear | P |
He spoke of his dumb despair | K |
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See see he exclaimed to the winsome maid | A |
in syllables tall and sweet | A |
The whole of my expectations I cast | A |
At thy beautiful blushing feet | A |
For you I would live through eternity | A |
Say yes' for my own sweet sake | Q |
And without a murmur I'll sacrifice | R |
All the millions I hope to make | Q |
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Then the maiden rested her blushing nose | S |
For a moment on Tommy's chest | A |
And she said as she cuddled his crumpled form | T |
To her soft and capacious breast | A |
As I have been true in the years to come | U |
I'll be true in the past said she | A |
And she winked her ear at a native bear | K |
That was perched on a pumpkin tree | A |
Thomas E. Spencer
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