The Overlander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEE FEGE HIJIKLKL MNMOPEPE LQLQRESE TULV WEXE YLZLA2ELE TB2TB2EEEE| There's a trade you all know well | A |
| It's bringing cattle over | B |
| I'll tell you all about the time | C |
| When I became a drover | B |
| I made up my mind to try the spec | D |
| To the Clarence I did wander | B |
| And bought a mob of duffers there | E |
| To begin as an overlander | E |
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| Pass the wine cup round my boys | F |
| Don't let the bottle stand there | E |
| For to night we'll drink the health | G |
| Of every overlander | E |
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| Next morning counted the cattle | H |
| Saw the outfit ready to start | I |
| Saw all the lads well mounted | J |
| And their swags put in a cart | I |
| All kinds of men I had | K |
| From France Germany and Flanders | L |
| Lawyers doctors good and bad | K |
| In the mob of overlanders | L |
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| Next morning I set out | M |
| When the grass was green and young | N |
| And they swore they'd break my snout | M |
| If I did not move along | O |
| I said You're very hard | P |
| Take care don't raise my dander | E |
| For I'm a regular knowing card | P |
| The Queensland overlander | E |
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| 'Tis true we pay no license | L |
| And our run is rather large | Q |
| 'Tis not often they can catch us | L |
| So they cannot make a charge | Q |
| They think we live on store beef | R |
| But no I'm not a gander | E |
| When a good fat stranger joins the mob | S |
| He'll do says the overlander | E |
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| One day a squatter rode up | T |
| Says he You're on my run | U |
| I've got two boys as witnesses | L |
| Consider your stock in pound | V |
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| I tried to coax then bounce him | W |
| But my tin I had to squander | E |
| For he put threepence a head | X |
| On the mob of the overlander | E |
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| The pretty girls in Brisbane | Y |
| Were hanging out their duds | L |
| I wished to have a chat with them | Z |
| So steered straight for the tubs | L |
| Some dirty urchins saw me | A2 |
| And soon they raised my dander | E |
| Crying Mother quick take in the clothes | L |
| Here comes an overlander | E |
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| In town we drain the wine cup | T |
| And go to see the play | B2 |
| And never think to be hard up | T |
| For how to pass the day | B2 |
| Each has a sweetheart there | E |
| Dressed out in all her grandeur | E |
| Dark eyes and jet black flowing hair | E |
| She's a plum says the overlander | E |
Banjo Paterson
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