Australia's Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEED AFGFHHHF IDJDAAAD KDADLLLB MDBDNDDB OPQPRRRP DSTSUUUS DVWVXXXV AYBYZZZY UBADAAAD A2B2YB2C2C2C2B2Now Pat Ahearne of Ingleburn | A |
Upon the Castlereagh | B |
Was flush of cash and very flash | C |
As shearer persons say | D |
At Yankee grab his luck was cool | E |
At loo he'd lately scooped the pool | E |
He'd simply smashed the two up school | E |
Assisted by a grey | D |
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And Pat grew then like other men | A |
His head began to swell | F |
As he was fly he thought he'd try | G |
The Sydney folks as well | F |
Their chances would be mighty slim | H |
Of working any points on him | H |
When Euchre Bill and Ginger Jim | H |
Had found he was a sell | F |
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But bushmen's games are not the games | I |
That Sydney spielers play | D |
A country smarty's just their dart | J |
The city sharpers say | D |
And Patrick he was taken down | A |
For all he had but half a crown | A |
Before he'd been in Sydney town | A |
For more than half a day | D |
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'Twas well for Pat the shearer that | K |
He'd had the sense to pay | D |
His fare's return to Ingleburn | A |
Before he went away | D |
It's not what you could call a joke | L |
To find yourself completely broke | L |
But Patrick had a splendid stroke | L |
In store for Castlereagh | B |
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He found a shop an oyster shop | M |
Where lobster crab and cray | D |
Were all alive and seemed to thrive | B |
And purchased straight away | D |
Some crayfish and some lobsters too | N |
Such things are cheap in Woolloomooloo | D |
And caught the Western mail that flew | D |
Towards the Castlereagh | B |
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The train was crowded which allowed | O |
No sleeping on the trip | P |
Pat had a flask and thought to ask | Q |
The men to take a nip | P |
Just then a lobster chanced to find | R |
The bag unclosed and feeling kind | R |
It gave a man a nip but mind | R |
It was not on the trip | P |
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And then some crayfish got away | D |
With lobsters two or three | S |
And sundry grips and divers nips | T |
Made things extremely free | S |
Profane expressions filled the air | U |
Disgraceful how some people swear | U |
A livelier time than Pat had there | U |
You would not wish to see | S |
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A great hooray the ladies they | D |
Declared it was a plot | V |
Beyond a doubt to drive them out | W |
But leave No they would not | V |
They swore that they would clear the coast | X |
Or else the guard should lose his post | X |
But women always are a most | X |
Unreasonable lot | V |
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On Pat's return to Ingleburn | A |
The shell fish were in tow | Y |
And things were gay on Castlereagh | B |
Preparing for the Show | Y |
For every township in the scrub | Z |
That owns two churches and a pub | Z |
Must run a Show and draw a sub | Z |
From Goldsbrough Mort and Co | Y |
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Now shell fish are extremely rare | U |
Upon the Castlereagh | B |
And Ingleburn galoots don't yearn | A |
For lobster or for cray | D |
Lobsters indeed they'd never seen | A |
And never might had it not been | A |
For Pat Ahearne and he was mean | A |
Enough to make them pay | D |
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On lucre bent he hired a tent | A2 |
And made a rise with ease | B2 |
'Twas at the Show of course you know | Y |
Where side shows always please | B2 |
The shell fish they were placed inside | C2 |
And Pat stood by the door and cried | C2 |
Walk in and see Australia's Pride | C2 |
The monster Sydney fleas | B2 |
William Thomas Goodge
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