The Bolshie Nurse
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
He was a man of the union clan
And a Labor secre-tary.
He fell unwell and beneath the spell
Of a little nurse named Mary.
Now, Mary was no little lamb,
And the tenets that he taught her
They turned her head and she voted 'red'
When the mad strike fever caught her.
Then he missed his gruel, and he thought it cruel
That he was so neglected
One winter morn; and, all forlorn,
He rang - and was neglected.
And when she came she said, 'My name
Is henceforth Trotsky Mary.
We've downed thermometers, my friend:
You've won, dear secre-tary!'
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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Scheme | XAXAXAXA XBXBXAXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
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