Shearing With A Hoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBBB CCBB DDBB CCBB| The track that led to Carmody's is choked and overgrown | A |
| The suckers of the stringybark have made the place their own | A |
| The mountain rains have cut the track that once we used to know | B |
| When first we rode to Carmody's a score of years ago | B |
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| The shearing shed at Carmody's was slab and stringybark | B |
| The press was just a lever beam invented in the Ark | B |
| But Mrs Carmody was cook and shearers' hearts would glow | B |
| With praise of grub at Carmody's a score of years ago | B |
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| At shearing time no penners up would curse their fate and weep | C |
| For Fragrant Fred the billy goat was trained to lead the sheep | C |
| And racing down the rattling chutes the bleating mob would go | B |
| Behind their horned man from Cook's a score of years ago | B |
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| An owner of the olden time his patriarchal shed | D |
| Was innocent of all machines or gadgets overhead | D |
| And pieces locks and super fleece together used to go | B |
| To fill the bales at Carmody's a score of years ago | B |
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| A ringer from the western sheds whose fame was wide and deep | C |
| Was asked to take a vacant pen and shear a thousand sheep | C |
| Of course we've only got the blades Well what I want to know | B |
| Why don't you get a bloke to take it off 'em with a hoe | B |
Banjo Paterson
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