Song Of The Wheat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDED JKJKBDBD LMLMNDND OPOPQDQD RKRKSDSD TLTLEDED

We have sung the song of the droving daysA
Of the march of the travelling sheepB
How by silent stages and lonely waysA
Thin white battalions creepB
But the man who now by the land would thriveC
Must his spurs to a ploughshare beatD
And the bush bard changing his tune may striveC
To sing the song if the WheatD
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It's west by south of the Great DivideE
The grim grey plains run outF
Where the old flock masters lived and diedE
In a ceaseless fight with droughtF
Weary with waiting and hope deferredG
They were ready to own defeatD
Till at last they heard the master wordG
And the master word was WheatD
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Yarran and Myall and Box and PineH
'Twas axe and fire for allI
They scarce could tarry to blaze the lineH
Or wait for the trees to fallI
Ere the team was yoked and the gates flung wideE
And the dust of the horses' feetD
Rose up like a pillar of smoke to guideE
The wonderful march of WheatD
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Furrow by furrow and fold by foldJ
The soil is turned on the plainK
Better than silver and better than goldJ
Is the surface mine of the grainK
Better than cattle and better than sheepB
In the fight with drought and heatD
For a streak of stubbornness wide and deepB
Lies hid in a grain of WheatD
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When the stock is swept by the hand of fateL
Deep down on his bed of clayM
The brave brown Wheat will die and waitL
For the resurrection dayM
Lie hid while the whole world thinks him deadN
But the Spring rain soft and sweetD
Will over the steaming paddocks spreadN
The first green flush of the WheatD
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Green and amber and gold it growsO
When the sun sinks late in the WestP
And the breeze sweeps over the rippling rowsO
Where the quail and the skylark nestP
Mountain or river or shining starQ
There's never a sight can beatD
Away to the sky line stretching farQ
A sea of the ripening WheatD
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When the burning harvest sun sinks lowR
And shadows stretch on the plainK
The roaring strippers come and goR
Like ships on a sea of grainK
Till the lurching groaning waggons bearS
Their tale of the load completeD
Of the world's great work he has done his shareS
Who has garnered a crop of wheatD
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Princes Potentates Kings and CzarsT
They travel in regal stateL
But old King Wheat has a thousand carsT
For his trip to the water gateL
And his thousand steamships breast the tideE
And plough through the wind and sleetD
To the lands where the teeming millions bideE
That say Thank God for the WheatD

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)



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