Our Maecenas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FGF HEH III JJJ KLL MMM EEE NNO PP QQQ| What Don't you our M cenas know | A |
| The man who started years ago | A |
| Our Wild Australian Author show | A |
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| You don't Your ignorance sublime | B |
| Exceeds to use a Boston rhyme | B |
| The taciturnity of time | B |
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| Well there he is across the way | C |
| Tall thin and growing somwhat grey | C |
| He has good reason you will say | C |
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| He's entering a bookshop Fine | D |
| He buys a book Don't make a sign | D |
| Don't speak Don't breathe It may be mine | D |
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| Alas The cover isn't blue | E |
| It's green it's Quinn's I always knew | E |
| His taste was never sound and true | E |
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| We all have hobbies Some endure | F |
| Some pass Australian Literature | G |
| Is his He likes it straight and pure | F |
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| Those breezy gentlemen you see | H |
| Walk up the street so spaciously | E |
| He started them he started me | H |
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| My word My oath if that you wish | I |
| I would have now been selling fish | I |
| Or something hot and sausageish | I |
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| And friends of mine with names renowned | J |
| Would now be driving picks in ground | J |
| And hoisting New South Wales around | J |
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| If he the Lord of the Event | K |
| Had not appeared pre subsequent | L |
| And given us encouragement | L |
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| He's now you see just skin and bone | M |
| Yet once he weighed quite fourteen stone | M |
| When he left coves like us alone | M |
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| And he was breathe it hoarse and low | E |
| A man of substance This I know | E |
| But that was several years ago | E |
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| Now was he thus to leanness brought | N |
| What tragic Fate his sorrow wrought | N |
| Alas he read the books he bought | O |
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| And now he's growing grey and old | P |
| But while he lives we'll say 'Behold | P |
| One copy of our works is sold ' | - |
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| He is the apple of our eye | Q |
| His health to us is precious Why | Q |
| We have to live he dare not die | Q |
Victor James Daley
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