Mustering Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CADDEE FFGB HHIIFFJJ KKLLMLNN OOPP QQFF RRGG SSTT

The boss last night in the hut did sayA
We start to muster at break of dayA
So be up first thing and don't be slowB
Saddle your horses and off you goB
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So early in the morning so early in the morningC
So early in the morning before the break of dayA
Such a night in the yard there never was seenD
The horses were fat and the grass was greenD
Bursting of girths and slipping of packsE
As the stockmen saddled the fastest hacksE
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Across the plain we jog alongF
Over gully swamp and billabongF
We dropp on a mob pretty lively tooG
We round 'em up and give 'em a slueB
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Now the scrub grows thick and the cattle are wildH
A regular caution to this 'ere childH
A new chum man on an old chum horseI
Who sails through the scrub as a matter of courseI
I was close up stuck in a rotten bogF
I got a buster jumping a logF
I found this scouting rather hotJ
So I joined the niggers with the lot we'd gotJ
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A long haired shepherd we chanced to meetK
With a water bag billy and dog completeK
He came too close to a knocked up steerL
Who up a sapling made him clearL
Now on every side we faintly hearM
The crack of the stockwhip drawing nearL
To the camp the cattle soon convergeN
As from the thick scrub they emergeN
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We hastily comfort the inner manO
With the warm contents of the billy canO
The beef and damper are passed aboutP
Before we tackle the cutting outP
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We're at it now that bally calfQ
Would surely make a sick man laughQ
The silly fool can't take a jokeF
I hope some day in the drought he'll croakF
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We've 'em now the cows and calvesR
Things here are never done by halvesR
Strangers workers and milkers tooG
Of scrubbers also not a fewG
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It's getting late we'd better pushS
'Tis a good long way across the bushS
And the mob to drive are middling hardT
I do not think we'll reach the yardT

Banjo Paterson



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