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Mulga Bill's Bicycle - Old Australian Poem
Posted On 01/08/2009 08:47:27 by disabledworld

"Mulga Bill's Bicycle" is an Australian poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson.

The poem is a ballad. Each line is a fourteener, having fourteen syllables and seven iambic feet.

It tells the tragic tale of Mulga Bill, a man whose pride in his riding skill causes him to purchase, ride and crash a bicycle. Although Mulga Bill claims expertise in riding all things his ineptitude and subsequent accident suggest that he may only know how to ride a horse.

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