That Half-crown Sweep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACADEDEFAFA AGAGHIHI JKJKLMNM OPOPQRQR| The run of Billabong go dry | A |
| Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap | B |
| Its waterhole and tank supply | A |
| Is excellent upon the map | B |
| But lacking nature's liquid drench | C |
| The station staff are wont to try | A |
| With Bob in Sweeps their thirst to quench | C |
| Or nearly quench at Bong go dry | A |
| The parson made five yearly rounds | D |
| That soil of arid souls to delve | E |
| He wrote I'll come for seven pounds | D |
| Or I could stop away for twelve | E |
| But lack of lucre brought about | F |
| The pusillanimous reply | A |
| Our luxuries are all cut out | F |
| You'll have to go to Bong go dry | A |
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| Now rabbit skins were very high | A |
| There'd been a kind of rabbit rush | G |
| And what with traps and sticks they'd shy | A |
| The station blacks were very flush | G |
| And each was taught his churchman's job | H |
| When that one parson's plate comes roun' | I |
| No good you put in sprat or bob | H |
| Too quick you put in harp a crown | I |
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| The parson's word was duly kept | J |
| He came and did his bit of speak | K |
| The boss remarked he hadn't slept | J |
| So sound and well for many a week | K |
| But Gilgai Jack and Monkey Jaw | L |
| Regarded preaching as a crime | M |
| Against good taste they said What for | N |
| That one chap yabber all the time | M |
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| Proceedings ceased the boss's hat | O |
| Was raked from underneath his chair | P |
| The coloured congregation sat | O |
| And waited with expectant air | P |
| At last from one far distant seat | Q |
| Where Gilgai's Mary'd been asleep | R |
| There came a kind of plaintive bleat | Q |
| Say boss Who won the harp crown sweep | R |
Banjo Paterson
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