It's Grand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH AJEJ KLML ANDN OPQP RSPT UVUV WXYX ZHSH| It's grand to be a squatter | A |
| And sit upon a post | B |
| And watch your little ewes and lambs | C |
| A giving up the ghost | B |
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| It's grand to be a cockie | D |
| With wife and kids to keep | E |
| And find an all wise Providence | F |
| Has mustered all your sheep | E |
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| It's grand to be a Western man | G |
| With shovel in your hand | H |
| To dig your little homestead out | I |
| From underneath the sand | H |
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| It's grand to be a shearer | A |
| Along the Darling side | J |
| And pluck the wool from stinking sheep | E |
| That some days since have died | J |
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| It's grand to be a rabbit | K |
| And breed till all is blue | L |
| And then to die in heaps because | M |
| There's nothing left to chew | L |
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| It's grand to be a Minister | A |
| And travel like a swell | N |
| And tell the Central District folk | D |
| To go to Inverell | N |
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| It's grand to be a socialist | O |
| And lead the bold array | P |
| That marches to prosperity | Q |
| At seven bob a day | P |
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| It's grand to be unemployed | R |
| And lie in the Domain | S |
| And wake up every second day | P |
| And go to sleep again | T |
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| It's grand to borrow English tin | U |
| To pay for wharves and docks | V |
| And then to find it isn't in | U |
| The little money box | V |
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| It's grand to be a democrat | W |
| And toady to the mob | X |
| For fear that if you told the truth | Y |
| They'd hunt you from your job | X |
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| It's grand to be a lot of things | Z |
| In this fair Southern land | H |
| But if the Lord would send us rain | S |
| That would indeed be grand | H |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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