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 squatterA
And sit upon a postB
And watch your little ewes and lambsC
A giving up the ghostB
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It's grand to be a cockieD
With wife and kids to keepE
And find an all wise ProvidenceF
Has mustered all your sheepE
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It's grand to be a Western manG
With shovel in your handH
To dig your little homestead outI
From underneath the sandH
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It's grand to be a shearerA
Along the Darling sideJ
And pluck the wool from stinking sheepE
That some days since have diedJ
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It's grand to be a rabbitK
And breed till all is blueL
And then to die in heaps becauseM
There's nothing left to chewL
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It's grand to be a MinisterA
And travel like a swellN
And tell the Central District folkD
To go to InverellN
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It's grand to be a socialistO
And lead the bold arrayP
That marches to prosperityQ
At seven bob a dayP
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It's grand to be unemployedR
And lie in the DomainS
And wake up every second dayP
And go to sleep againT
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It's grand to borrow English tinU
To pay for wharves and docksV
And then to find it isn't inU
The little money boxV
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It's grand to be a democratW
And toady to the mobX
For fear that if you told the truthY
They'd hunt you from your jobX
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It's grand to be a lot of thingsZ
In this fair Southern landH
But if the Lord would send us rainS
That would indeed be grandH

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)



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