Immigration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGHHIIJJ KKLLNow Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song | A |
Perhaps you've heard him lecture and blow about it strong | A |
To hear him talk you'd think it was a heaven upon earth | B |
But listen and I'll tell you now the plain unvarnished truth | C |
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Here mutton beef and damper are all you'll get to eat | D |
From Monday morn till Sunday night all through the blessed week | E |
And should the flour bag run short then mutton beef and tea | F |
Will be your lot and whether or not 'twill have to do you'll see | F |
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Here snakes and all vile reptiles crawl around you as you walk | G |
But these you never hear about in Mr Jordan's talk | G |
Mosquitoes too and sandflies they will tease you all the night | H |
And until you get quite colonised you'll be a pretty sight | H |
Here are boundless plains where it seldom rains and you'll maybe die of thirst | I |
But should you so dispose your bones you'll scarcely be the first | I |
For there's many a strong and stalwart man come out to make his pile | J |
Who never leaves the fatal shore of this thrice accursed isle | J |
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To sum it up in few short words the place is only fit | K |
For those who were sent out here for from this they cannot flit | K |
But any other men who come a living here to try | L |
Will vegetate a little while and then lie down and die | L |
Banjo Paterson
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