The Dying Stockman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC D AEFE BGHG B IEJE B EEKE B BEBE B LEBE B| Air The Old Stable Jacket | A |
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| A strapping young stockman lay dying | B |
| His saddle supporting his head | C |
| His two mates around him were crying | B |
| As he rose on his pillow and said | C |
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| Chorus | D |
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| Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket | A |
| And bury me deep down below | E |
| Where the dingoes and crows can't molest me | F |
| In the shade where the coolibahs grow | E |
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| Oh had I the flight of the bronzewing | B |
| Far o'er the plains would I fly | G |
| Straight to the land of my childhood | H |
| And there would I lay down and die | G |
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| Chorus Wrap me up c | B |
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| Then cut down a couple of saplings | I |
| Place one at my head and my toe | E |
| Carve on them cross stockwhip and saddle | J |
| To show there's a stockman below | E |
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| Chorus Wrap me up c | B |
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| Hark there's the wail of a dingo | E |
| Watchful and weird I must go | E |
| For it tolls the death knell of the stockman | K |
| From the gloom of the scrub down below | E |
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| Chorus Wrap me up c | B |
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| There's tea in the battered old billy | B |
| Place the pannikins out in a row | E |
| And we'll drink to the next merry meeting | B |
| In the place where all good fellows go | E |
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| Chorus Wrap me up c | B |
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| And oft in the shades of the twilight | L |
| When the soft winds are whispering low | E |
| And the dark'ning shadows are falling | B |
| Sometimes think of the stockman below | E |
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| Chorus Wrap me up c | B |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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