Australia's Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Now Pat Ahearne of IngleburnA
Upon the CastlereaghB
Was flush of cash and very flashC
As shearer persons sayD
At Yankee grab his luck was coolE
At loo he'd lately scooped the poolE
He'd simply smashed the two up schoolE
Assisted by a greyD
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And Pat grew then like other menA
His head began to swellF
As he was fly he thought he'd tryG
The Sydney folks as wellF
Their chances would be mighty slimH
Of working any points on himH
When Euchre Bill and Ginger JimH
Had found he was a sellF
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But bushmen's games are not the gamesI
That Sydney spielers playD
A country smarty's just their dartJ
The city sharpers sayD
And Patrick he was taken downA
For all he had but half a crownA
Before he'd been in Sydney townA
For more than half a dayD
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'Twas well for Pat the shearer thatK
He'd had the sense to payD
His fare's return to IngleburnA
Before he went awayD
It's not what you could call a jokeL
To find yourself completely brokeL
But Patrick had a splendid strokeL
In store for CastlereaghB
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He found a shop an oyster shopM
Where lobster crab and crayD
Were all alive and seemed to thriveB
And purchased straight awayD
Some crayfish and some lobsters tooN
Such things are cheap in WoolloomoolooD
And caught the Western mail that flewD
Towards the CastlereaghB
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The train was crowded which allowedO
No sleeping on the tripP
Pat had a flask and thought to askQ
The men to take a nipP
Just then a lobster chanced to findR
The bag unclosed and feeling kindR
It gave a man a nip but mindR
It was not on the tripP
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And then some crayfish got awayD
With lobsters two or threeS
And sundry grips and divers nipsT
Made things extremely freeS
Profane expressions filled the airU
Disgraceful how some people swearU
A livelier time than Pat had thereU
You would not wish to seeS
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A great hooray the ladies theyD
Declared it was a plotV
Beyond a doubt to drive them outW
But leave No they would notV
They swore that they would clear the coastX
Or else the guard should lose his postX
But women always are a mostX
Unreasonable lotV
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On Pat's return to IngleburnA
The shell fish were in towY
And things were gay on CastlereaghB
Preparing for the ShowY
For every township in the scrubZ
That owns two churches and a pubZ
Must run a Show and draw a subZ
From Goldsbrough Mort and CoY
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Now shell fish are extremely rareU
Upon the CastlereaghB
And Ingleburn galoots don't yearnA
For lobster or for crayD
Lobsters indeed they'd never seenA
And never might had it not beenA
For Pat Ahearne and he was meanA
Enough to make them payD
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On lucre bent he hired a tentA2
And made a rise with easeB2
'Twas at the Show of course you knowY
Where side shows always pleaseB2
The shell fish they were placed insideC2
And Pat stood by the door and criedC2
Walk in and see Australia's PrideC2
The monster Sydney fleasB2

William Thomas Goodge



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