The Billy-goat Overland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEBB FFBB| Come all ye lads of the droving days ye gentlemen unafraid | A |
| I'll tell you all of the greatest trip that ever a drover made | A |
| For we rolled our swags and we packed our bags and taking our lives in hand | B |
| We started away with a thousand goats on the billy goat overland | B |
| There wasn't a fence that'd hold the mob or keep 'em from their desires | C |
| They skipped along the top of the posts and cake walked on the wires | C |
| And where the lanes had been stripped of grass and the paddocks were nice and green | D |
| The goats they travelled outside the lanes and we rode in between | D |
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| The squatters started to drive them back but that was no good at all | E |
| Their horses ran for the lick of their lives from the scent that was like a wall | E |
| And never a dog had pluck or gall in front of the mob to stand | B |
| And face the charge of a thousand goats on the billy goat overland | B |
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| We found we were hundreds over strength when we counted out the mob | F |
| And they put us in jail for a crowd of theives that travelled to steal and rob | F |
| For every goat between here and Bourke when he scented our spicy band | B |
| Had left his home and his work to join in the billy goat overland | B |
Banjo Paterson
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