The Australian Slanguage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHBJBJ CKGKLMGM LNONPQGQ RQSQFTTT LUKVGWXW GYLYZTCT| Tis the everyday Australian | A |
| Has a language of his own | B |
| Has a language or a slanguage | C |
| Which can simply stand alone | B |
| And a dickon pitch to kid us | D |
| Is a synonym for lie | E |
| And to nark it means to stop it | F |
| And to nit it means to fly | E |
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| And a bosom friend's a cobber | G |
| And a horse a prad or moke | H |
| While a casual acquaintance | I |
| Is a joker or a bloke | H |
| And his lady love's his donah | B |
| or his clinah or his tart | J |
| Or his little bit o' muslin | B |
| As it used to be his bart | J |
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| And his naming of the coinage | C |
| Is a mystery to some | K |
| With his quid and half a caser | G |
| And his deener and his scrum | K |
| And a tin back is a party | L |
| Who's remarkable for luck | M |
| And his food is called his tucker | G |
| Or his panem or his chuck | M |
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| A policeman is a johnny | L |
| Or a copman or a trap | N |
| And a thing obtained on credit | O |
| Is invariably strap | N |
| A conviction s known as trouble | P |
| And a gaol is called a jug | Q |
| And a sharper is a spieler | G |
| And a simpleton's a tug | Q |
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| If he hits a man in fighting | R |
| That is what he calls a plug | Q |
| If he borrows money from you | S |
| He will say he bit your lug | Q |
| And to shake it is to steal it | F |
| And to strike it is to beg | T |
| And a jest is poking borac | T |
| And a jester pulls your leg | T |
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| Things are cronk when they go wrongly | L |
| In the language of the push | U |
| But when things go as he wants 'em | K |
| He declares it is all cush | V |
| When he's bright he's got a napper | G |
| And he's ratty when he's daft | W |
| And when looking for employment | X |
| He is out o' blooming graft | W |
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| And his clothes he calls his clobber | G |
| Or his togs but what of that | Y |
| When a castor or a kady | L |
| Is the name he gives his hat | Y |
| And our undiluted English | Z |
| Is a fad to which we cling | T |
| But the great Australian slanguage | C |
| Is a truly awful thing | T |
William Thomas Goodge
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