The Murrumbidgee Shearer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB ABAA AABB BBCC DEAA FFGG BBBB HHCome all you jolly natives and I'll relate to you | A |
Some of my observations adventures too a few | A |
I've travelled about the country for miles full many a score | B |
And oft times would have hungered but for the cheek I bore | B |
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I've coasted on the Barwon low down the Darling too | A |
I've been on the Murrumbidgee and out on the Paroo | B |
I've been on all the diggings boys from famous Ballarat | A |
I've loafed upon the Lachlan and fossicked Lambing Flat | A |
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I went up to a squatter and asked him for a feed | A |
But the knowledge of my hunger was swallowed by his greed | A |
He said I was a loafer and for work had no desire | B |
And so to do him justice I set his shed on fire | B |
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Oh yes I've touched the shepherd's hut of sugar tea and flour | B |
And a tender bit of mutton I always could devour | B |
I went up to a station and there I got a job | C |
Plunged in the store and hooked it with a very tidy lob | C |
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Oh yes my jolly dandies I've done it on the cross | D |
Although I carry bluey now I've sweated many a horse | E |
I've helped to ease the escort of many's the ounce of gold | A |
The traps have often chased me more times than can be told | A |
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Oh yes the traps have chased me been frightened of their stripes | F |
They never could have caught me they feared my cure for gripes | F |
And well they knew I carried it which they had often seen | G |
A glistening in my flipper chaps a patent pill machine | G |
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I've been hunted like a panther into my mountain lair | B |
Anxiety and misery my grim companions there | B |
I've planted in the scrub my boys and fed on kangaroo | B |
And wound up my avocations by ten years on Cockatoo | B |
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So you can understand my boys just from this little rhyme | H |
I'm a Murrumbidgee shearer and one of the good old time | H |
Banjo Paterson
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