The Shearer's Cook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEF GGHHIIDEF JJEEEEEEE| Now shearers' cooks as shearers know | A |
| Are very seldom wont to blow | A |
| But when I took to dabbing tar | B |
| And picking up on Blaringar | B |
| The cook when barbers came at morn | C |
| To get a snack would say with scorn | C |
| Tea on the left | D |
| Coffee on the right | E |
| Brownie on the bunk and blast yez | F |
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| The bunk or slab was in the hut | G |
| And on it brownie ready cut | G |
| Two buckets o'er the fire would be | H |
| One filled with coffee one with tea | H |
| And when the chaps came filing in | I |
| The cook would say with mirthless grin | I |
| Tea on the left | D |
| Coffee on the right | E |
| Brownie on the bunk and blast yez | F |
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| Peculiar man this shearers' cook | J |
| And had a very ugly look | J |
| To me a new chum rouseabout | E |
| Said he one day when all were out | E |
| There's nothing in this world my lad | E |
| That's worth your worry good or bad | E |
| Grief on the left | E |
| Sorrow on the right | E |
| Trouble on the bunk but blast it | E |
William Thomas Goodge
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