The Lost Leichardt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH CICI CJCJ KLKL MCMC NONO PFPF| Another search for Leichhardt's tomb | A |
| Though fifty years have fled | B |
| Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom | A |
| Our one Illustrious Dead | B |
| But daring men from Britain's shore | C |
| The fearless bulldog breed | D |
| Renew the fearful task once more | C |
| Determined to succeed | D |
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| Rash men that know not what they seek | E |
| Will find their courage tried | F |
| For things have changed on Cooper's Creek | E |
| Since Ludwig Leichhardt died | F |
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| Along where Leichhardt journeyed slow | G |
| And toiled and starved in vain | H |
| These rash excursionists must go | G |
| Per Queensland railway train | H |
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| Out on those deserts lone and drear | C |
| The fierce Australian black | I |
| Will say You show it pint o' beer | C |
| It show you Leichhardt track | I |
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| And loud from every squatter's door | C |
| Each pioneering swell | J |
| Will hear the wild pianos roar | C |
| The strains of Daisy Bell | J |
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| The watchers in those forests vast | K |
| Will see at fall of night | L |
| Commercial travellers bounding past | K |
| And darting out of sight | L |
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| About their path a fearful fate | M |
| Will hover always near | C |
| A dreadful scourge that lies in wait | M |
| The Longreach Horehound Beer | C |
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| And then to crown this tale of guilt | N |
| They'll find some scurvy knave | O |
| Regardless of their quest has built | N |
| A pub on Leichhardt's grave | O |
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| Ah yes Those British pioneers | P |
| Had best at home abide | F |
| For things have changed in fifty years | P |
| Since Ludwig Leichhardt died | F |
Banjo Paterson
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