On The Trek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHDHD IJIJKBKD| Oh the weary weary journey on the trek day after day | A |
| With sun above and silent veldt below | B |
| And our hearts keep turning homeward to the youngsters far away | A |
| And the homestead where the climbing roses grow | B |
| Shall we see the flats grow golden with the ripening of the grain | C |
| Shall we hear the parrots calling on the bough | D |
| Ah the weary months of marching ere we hear them call again | E |
| For we're going on a long job now | D |
| In the drowsy days on escort riding slowly half asleep | F |
| With the endless line of waggons stretching back | G |
| While the khaki soldiers travel like a mob of travelling sheep | F |
| Plodding silent on the never ending track | G |
| While the constant snap and sniping of the foe you never see | H |
| Makes you wonder will your turn come when and how | D |
| As the Mauser ball hums past you like a vicious kind of bee | H |
| Oh we're going on a long job now | D |
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| When the dash and the excitement and the novelty are dead | I |
| And you've seen a load of wounded once or twice | J |
| Or you've watched your old mate dying with the vultures overhead | I |
| Well you wonder if the war is worth the price | J |
| And down along the Monaro now they're starting out to shear | K |
| I can picture the excitement and the row | B |
| But they'll miss me on the Lachlan when they call the roll this year | K |
| For we're going on a long job now | D |
Banjo Paterson
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