The Squatter Of The Olden Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAB CCCCB DDDDBEEEEB EEEEB| I'll sing to you a fine new song made by my blessed mate | A |
| Of a fine Australian squatter who had a fine estate | A |
| Who swore by right pre emptive at a sanguinary rate | A |
| That by his rams his ewes his lambs Australia was made great | A |
| Like a fine Australian squatter one of the olden time | B |
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| His hut around was hung with guns whips spurs and boots and shoes | C |
| And kettles and tin pannikins to hold the tea he brews | C |
| And here his worship lolls at ease and takes his smoke and snooze | C |
| And quaffs his cup of hysouskin the beverage old chums choose | C |
| Like a fine Australian squatter one of the olden time | B |
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| And when shearing time approaches he opens hut to all | D |
| And though ten thousand are his flocks he featly shears them all | D |
| Even to the scabby wanderer you'd think no good at all | D |
| For while he fattens all the great he boils down all the small | D |
| Like a fine old Murray squatter one of the olden time | B |
| And when his worship comes to town his agents for to see | E |
| His wool to ship his beasts to sell he lives right merrily | E |
| The club his place of residence as becomes a bush J P | E |
| He darkly hints that Thompson's run from scab is scarcely free | E |
| This fine old Murray settler one of the olden time | B |
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| And now his fortune he has made to England straight goes he | E |
| But finds with grief he's not received as he had hoped to be | E |
| His friends declare his habits queer his language much too free | E |
| And are somewhat apt to cross the street when him they chance to see | E |
| This fine Australian squatter the boy of the olden time | B |
Banjo Paterson
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