The Freehold On The Plain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB EBEB FBFB FBFB| I'm a broken down old squatter my cash it is all gone | A |
| Of troubles and bad seasons I complain | B |
| My cattle are all mortgaged of horses I have none | C |
| And I've lost that little freehold on the plain | B |
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| The stockyard's broken down and the woolshed's tumbling in | D |
| I've written to the mortgagees in vain | B |
| My wool it is all damaged and it is not worth a pin | D |
| And I've lost that little freehold on the plain | B |
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| I commenced life as a squatter some twenty years ago | E |
| When fortune followed in my train | B |
| But I speculated heavy and I'd have you all to know | E |
| That I've lost that little freehold on the plain | B |
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| I built myself a mansion and chose myself a wife | F |
| Of her I have no reason to complain | B |
| For I thought I had sufficient to last me all my life | F |
| But I've lost that little freehold on the plain | B |
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| And now I am compelled to take a drover's life | F |
| To drive cattle through the sunshine and the rain | B |
| And to leave her behind me my own dear loving wife | F |
| We were happy on that freehold on the plain | B |
Banjo Paterson
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