A Walgett Episode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFF CGCGCC HIHICC BJBJCC KLKLCC KKMKCC NONOCC| The sun strikes down with a blinding glare | A |
| The skies are blue and the plains are wide | B |
| The saltbush plains that are burnt and bare | A |
| By Walgett out on the Barwon side | B |
| The Barwon River that wanders down | C |
| In a leisurely manner by Walgett Town | C |
| There came a stranger a Cockatoo | D |
| The word means farmer as all men know | E |
| Who dwell in the land where the kangaroo | D |
| Barks loud at dawn and the white eyed crow | E |
| Uplifts his song on the stock yard fence | F |
| As he watches the lambkins passing hence | F |
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| The sunburnt stranger was gaunt and brown | C |
| But it soon appeared that he meant to flout | G |
| The iron law of the country town | C |
| Which is that the stranger has got to shout | G |
| If he will not shout we must take him down | C |
| Remarked the yokels of Walgett Town | C |
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| They baited a trap with a crafty bait | H |
| With a crafty bait for they held discourse | I |
| Concerning a new chum who there of late | H |
| Had bought such a thoroughly lazy horse | I |
| They would wager that no one could ride him down | C |
| The length of the city of Walgett Town | C |
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| The stranger was born on a horse's hide | B |
| So he took the wagers and made them good | J |
| With his hard earned cash but his hopes they died | B |
| For the horse was a clothes horse made of wood | J |
| 'Twas a well known horse that had taken down | C |
| Full many a stranger in Walgett Town | C |
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| The stranger smiled with a sickly smile | K |
| 'Tis a sickly smile that the loser grins | L |
| And he said he had travelled for quite a while | K |
| A trying to sell some marsupial skins | L |
| And I thought that perhaps as you've took me down | C |
| You would buy them from me in Walgett Town | C |
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| He said that his home was at Wingalee | K |
| At Wingalee where he had for sale | K |
| Some fifty skins and would guarantee | M |
| They were full sized skins with the ears and tail | K |
| Complete and he sold them for money down | C |
| To a venturesome buyer in Walgett Town | C |
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| Then he smiled a smile as he pouched the pelf | N |
| I'm glad that I'm quit of them win or lose | O |
| You can fetch them in when it suits yourself | N |
| And you'll find the skins on the kangaroos | O |
| Then he left and the silence settled down | C |
| Like a tangible thing upon Walgett Town | C |
Banjo Paterson
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