The Maranoa Drovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG CHIG JKLGBKMG NKFG| The night is dark and stormy and the sky is clouded o'er | A |
| Our horses we will mount and ride away | B |
| To watch the squatters' cattle through the darkness of the night | C |
| And we'll keep them on the camp till break of day | B |
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| For we're going going going to Gunnedah so far | D |
| And we'll soon be into sunny New South Wales | E |
| We shall bid farewell to Queensland with its swampy coolibah | F |
| Happy drovers from the sandy Maranoa | G |
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| When the fires are burning bright through the darkness of the night | C |
| And the cattle camping quiet well I'm sure | H |
| That I wish for two o'clock when I call the other watch | I |
| This is droving from the sandy Maranoa | G |
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| Our beds made on the ground we are sleeping all so sound | J |
| When we're wakened by the distant thunder's roar | K |
| And the lightning's vivid flash followed by an awful crash | L |
| It's rough on drovers from the sandy Maranoa | G |
| We are up at break of day and we're all soon on the way | B |
| For we always have to go ten miles or more | K |
| It don't do to loaf about or the squatter will come out | M |
| He's strict on drovers from the sandy Maranoa | G |
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| We shall soon be on the Moonie and we'll cross the Barwon too | N |
| Then we'll be out upon the rolling plains once more | K |
| We'll shout Hurrah for old Queensland with its swampy coolibah | F |
| And the cattle that come off the Maranoa | G |
Banjo Paterson
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