Mulligan's Shanty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAABCB BBDBB AA BB AAEAA| Things is just the same as ever | A |
| On the outer Never Never | A |
| And you look to find the stock of liquor scanty | B |
| But we found things worse than ordin'ry | A |
| And in fact a bit extraordin'ry | A |
| When myself and Bill the Pinker struck the shanty | B |
| 'Shanty ' says you 'What shanty ' | C |
| Why Mulligan's shanty | B |
| - | |
| I says 'Whisky' Bill says 'Brandy' | B |
| But there wasn't either handy | B |
| For the boss was out of liquor in that line | D |
| 'Well I'll try a rum ' says Billy | B |
| 'Got no rum ' he answers chilly | B |
| 'But I'll recommend a decent drop o' tine ' | - |
| 'Tine ' says Bill 'what tine ' | - |
| 'Why turpentine ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Blow me blue ' says Bill the Pinker | A |
| 'Can't yer give us a deep sinker | A |
| Ain't you got a cask o' beer behind the screen ' | - |
| Bill was getting pretty cranky | B |
| But there wasn't any swanky | B |
| Says the landlord 'Why not have a drop o' sene ' | - |
| 'Sene ' says Bill 'what sene ' | - |
| 'Why kerosene ' | - |
| - | |
| Well we wouldn't spend a tanner | A |
| But the boss's pleasant manner | A |
| All our cursing couldn't easily demolish | E |
| Says he 'Strike me perpendic'lar | A |
| But you beggars are partic'lar | A |
| Why the squatter in the parlor's drinking polish ' | - |
| 'Polish ' says Bill 'what polish ' | - |
| 'Why furniture polish ' | - |
William Thomas Goodge
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