The Stockman's Last Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FGHH IICJ| Be ye stockmen or no to my story give ear | A |
| Alas for poor Jack no more shall we hear | A |
| The crack of his stockwhip his steed's lively trot | B |
| His clear Go ahead boys his jingling quart pot | B |
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| For we laid him where wattles their sweet fragrance shed | C |
| And the tall gum trees shadow the stockman's last bed | C |
| Whilst drafting one day he was horned by a cow | D |
| Alas cried poor Jack it's all up with me now | D |
| For I never again shall my saddle regain | E |
| Nor bound like a wallaby over the plain | E |
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| His whip it is silent his dogs they do mourn | F |
| His steed looks in vain for his master's return | G |
| No friend to bemoan him unheeded he dies | H |
| Save Australia's dark sons few know where he lies | H |
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| Now stockman if ever on some future day | I |
| After the wild mob you happen to stray | I |
| Tread softly where wattles their sweet fragrance spread | C |
| Where alone and neglected poor Jack's bones are laid | J |
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