Immigration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDE FGHH IIJJ KKLL MMBB| Mr Jordan was sent to England by the Queensland Government in and to lecture on the advantages of immigration and told the most extraordinary tales about the place | A |
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| Air Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie | B |
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| Now Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song | C |
| Perhaps you've heard him lecture and blow about it strong | C |
| To hear him talk you'd think it was a heaven upon earth | D |
| But listen and I'll tell you now the plain unvarnished truth | E |
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| Here mutton beef and damper are all you'll get to eat | F |
| From Monday morn till Sunday night all through the blessed week | G |
| And should the flour bag run short then mutton beef and tea | H |
| Will be your lot and whether or not 'twill have to do you'll see | H |
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| Here snakes and all vile reptiles crawl around you as you walk | I |
| But these you never hear about in Mr Jordan's talk | I |
| Mosquitoes too and sandflies they will tease you all the night | J |
| And until you get quite colonised you'll be a pretty sight | J |
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| Here are boundless plains where it seldom rains and you'll maybe die of thirst | K |
| But should you so dispose your bones you'll scarcely be the first | K |
| For there's many a strong and stalwart man come out to make his pile | L |
| Who never leaves the fatal shore of this thrice accursed isle | L |
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| To sum it up in few short words the place is only fit | M |
| For those who were sent out here for from this they cannot flit | M |
| But any other men who come a living here to try | B |
| Will vegetate a little while and then lie down and die | B |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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