The Dying Stockman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEDAFGF HDID DDJD EDAD KDAD| A strapping young stockman lay dying | A |
| His saddle supporting his head | B |
| His two mates around him were crying | A |
| As he rose on his pillow and said | B |
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| Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket | C |
| And bury me deep down below | D |
| Where the dingoes and crows can't molest me | E |
| In the shade where the coolibahs grow | D |
| Oh had I the flight of the bronzewing | A |
| Far o'er the plains would I fly | F |
| Straight to the land of my childhood | G |
| And there would I lay down and die | F |
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| Then cut down a couple of saplings | H |
| Place one at my head and my toe | D |
| Carve on them cross stockwhip and saddle | I |
| To show there's a stockman below | D |
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| Hark there's the wail of a dingo | D |
| Watchful and weird I must go | D |
| For it tolls the death knell of the stockman | J |
| From the gloom of the scrub down below | D |
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| There's tea in the battered old billy | E |
| Place the pannikins out in a row | D |
| And we'll drink to the next merry meeting | A |
| In the place where all good fellows go | D |
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| And oft in the shades of the twilight | K |
| When the soft winds are whispering low | D |
| And the dark'ning shadows are falling | A |
| Sometimes think of the stockman below | D |
Banjo Paterson
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