The Forlorn Shepherd's Complaint.[1] - An Unpublished Poem, From Sydney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDEE FFAA GGHH IIAA HHJJ CCKK HHAA AAAA CCLL| Vell Here I am no Matter how it suits | A |
| A keeping Company vith them dumb Brutes | A |
| Old Park vos no bad Judge confound his vig | B |
| Of vot vood break the Sperrit of a Prig | B |
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| The Like of Me to come to New Sow Wales | A |
| To go a tagging arter Vethers' Tails | A |
| And valk in Herbage as delights the Flock | C |
| But stinks of Sweet Herbs vorser nor the Dock | C |
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| To go to set this solitary Job | D |
| To Von whose Vork vos alvay in a Mob | D |
| It's out of all our Lines for sure I am | E |
| Jack Shepherd even never kep a Lamb | E |
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| I arn't ashamed to say I sit and veep | F |
| To think of Seven Year of keepin Sheep | F |
| The spooniest Beast in Nater all to Sticks | A |
| And not a Votch to take for all their Ticks | A |
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| If I'd fore seed how Transports vould turn out | G |
| To only Baa and Botanize about | G |
| I'd quite as leaf have had the t'other Pull | H |
| And come to Cotton as to all this Vool | H |
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| Von only happy moment I have had | I |
| Since here I come to be a Farmer's Cad | I |
| And then I cotch'd a vild Beast in a Snooze | A |
| And pick'd her pouch of three young Kangaroos | A |
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| Vot chance haye I to go to Race or Mill | H |
| Or show a sneaking Kindness for a Till | H |
| And as for Vashings on a hedge to dry | J |
| I'd put the Natives' Linen in my Eye | J |
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| If this whole Lot of Mutton I could scrag | C |
| And find a Fence to turn it into Swag | C |
| I'd give it all in London Streets to stand | K |
| And if I had my pick I'd say the Strand | K |
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| But ven I goes as maybe vonce I shall | H |
| To my old Crib to meet with Jack and Sal | H |
| I've been so gallows honest in this Place | A |
| I shan't not like to show my sheepish Face | A |
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| It's wery hard for nothing but a Box | A |
| Of Irish Blackguard to be keepin' Flocks | A |
| 'Mong naked Blacks sich Savages to hus | A |
| They've nayther got a Pocket nor a Pus | A |
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| But folks may tell their Troubles till they're sick | C |
| To dumb brute Beasts and so I'll cut my Stick | C |
| And vot's the Use a Feller's Eyes to pipe | L |
| Vere von can't borrow any Gemman's Vipe | L |
Thomas Hood
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