A Mountain Station Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FEFEGEGE HEHEEEEE EGEGAIAI JBJBKGKG LMLMEGEG| I bought a run a while ago | A |
| On country rough and ridgy | B |
| Where wallaroos and wombats grow | A |
| The Upper Murrumbidgee | B |
| The grass is rather scant it's true | C |
| But this a fair exchange is | D |
| The sheep can see a lovely view | C |
| By climbing up the ranges | E |
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| And She oak Flat's the station's name | F |
| I'm not surprised at that sirs | E |
| The oaks were there before I came | F |
| And I supplied the flat sirs | E |
| A man would wonder how it's done | G |
| The stock so soon decreases | E |
| They sometimes tumble off the run | G |
| And break themselves to pieces | E |
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| I've tried to make expenses meet | H |
| But wasted all my labours | E |
| The sheep the dingoes didn't eat | H |
| Were stolen by the neighbours | E |
| They stole my pears my native pears | E |
| Those thrice convicted felons | E |
| And ravished from me unawares | E |
| My crop of paddy melons | E |
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| And sometimes under sunny skies | E |
| Without an explanation | G |
| The Murrumbidgee used to rise | E |
| And overflow the station | G |
| But this was caused as now I know | A |
| When summer sunshine glowing | I |
| Had melted all kiandra's snow | A |
| And set the river going | I |
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| Then in the news perhaps you read | J |
| Stock Passings Puckawidgee | B |
| Fat cattle Seven hundred head | J |
| Swept down the Murrumbidgee | B |
| Their destination's quite obscure | K |
| But somehow there's a notion | G |
| Unless the river falls they're sure | K |
| To reach the Southern Ocean | G |
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| So after that I'll give it best | L |
| No more with Fate I'll battle | M |
| I'll let the river take the rest | L |
| For those were all my cattle | M |
| And with one comprehensive curse | E |
| I close my brief narration | G |
| And advertise it in my verse | E |
| For Sale A Mountain Station | G |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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