Boots Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEDEDBDBD EFEFDDDD| We've travelled per Joe Gardiner a humping of our swag | A |
| In the country of the Gidgee and Belar | B |
| We've swum the Di'mantina with our raiment in a bag | A |
| And we've travelled per superior motor car | B |
| But when we went to Germany we hadn't any choice | C |
| No matter what our training or pursuits | D |
| For they gave us no selection 'twixt a Ford or Rolls de Royce | C |
| So we did it in our good Australian boots | D |
| They called us quot mad Australians quot they couldn't understand | E |
| How officers and men could fraternise | D |
| Thay said that we were quot reckless quot we were quot wild and out of hand quot | E |
| With nothing great or sacred to our eyes | D |
| But on one thing you could gamble in the thickest of the fray | B |
| Though they called us volunteers and raw recruits | D |
| You could track us past the shell holes and the tracks were all one way | B |
| Of the good Australian ammunition boots | D |
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| The Highlanders were next of kin the Irish were a treat | E |
| The Yankees knew it all and had to learn | F |
| The Frenchmen kept it going both in vict'ry and defeat | E |
| Fighting grimly till the tide was on the turn | F |
| And our army kept beside 'em did its bit and took its chance | D |
| And I hailed our newborn nation and its fruits | D |
| As I listened to the clatter on the cobblestones of France | D |
| Of the good Australian military boots | D |
Banjo Paterson
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