The Plains Of Riverine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHGG IIGG JJGG EEGG KKGG LLGG MMEEI have come to tell you of the glorious news you'll all be glad to bear | A |
Of the pleasant alterations that are taking place this year | B |
So kindly pay attention and I'll pass the whisper round | C |
The squatters of their own free will this year will pay the pound | C |
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For this is a year of great prosperity that everybody knows | D |
We'll take no top knots off this year nor trim them to the toes | D |
But a level cut for a level pound and the rations thrown in free | E |
That's how the squatters say they'll keep their Sovereign's Jubilee | E |
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And kind Providence once more has sent the sweet refreshing rains | F |
The trefoil and the barley grass wave high upon the plains | F |
The tanks all overflowing and the saltbush fresh and green | G |
It's a pleasure for to ramble o'er the plains of Riverine | G |
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Once more upon the rippling lake the wild swan flaps her wing | H |
Out in the lignum swamps once more frogs croak and crickets sing | H |
Once more the wild fowl sporting midst the crab holes may be seen | G |
For prosperity is hovering o'er the plains of Riverine | G |
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Yes 'twill be a year of full and plenty for those back block pioneers | I |
Though behind each scrub and saltbush you can spot the bunny's ears | I |
And although the price for scalps is not so high as it has been | G |
Yet the bunny snappers they will thrive on the plains of Riverine | G |
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You should see the jolly teamsters how with joy their faces beam | J |
As they talk about the crowfoot carrots crab holes and their team | J |
They tell you that this year they do intend to steer sixteen | G |
They'll show the cookies how to plough the plains of Riverine | G |
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Yes in more respects than one it is a year of joy and glee | E |
And the news of our prosperity has crossed the briny sea | E |
Once more the Maorilander and the Tassey will be seen | G |
Cooking Johnny cakes and jimmies on the plains of Riverine | G |
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They will gather like a regiment to the beating of the drum | K |
But it matters not to us from whence our future penmates come | K |
From New Zealand's snow clad summits or Tasmania's meadows green | G |
We'll always make them welcome on the plains of Riverine | G |
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Down from her rocky peaks Monaro will send her champions bold | L |
Victoria will send her cockies too her honour to uphold | L |
They'll be here from Cunnamulla and the rolling downs between | G |
For this is the real convincing ground these plains of Riverine | G |
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I have a message to deliver now before I say farewell | M |
Some news which all the squatters have commissioned me to tell | M |
Your backs well bent bows long and clean that's what they want to see | E |
That your tallies may do you credit in this year of Jubilee | E |
Banjo Paterson
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