The Stringy-bark Cockatoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBB CCBB DDBB EEBB FFBB GGBB HIBB| I'm a broken hearted miner who loves his cup to drain | A |
| Which often times has caused me to lie in frost and rain | A |
| Roaming about the country looking for some work to do | B |
| I got a job of reaping off a stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| Oh the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
| Oh the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
| I got a job of reaping off a stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| Ten bob an acre was his price with promise of fairish board | C |
| He said his crops were very light 'twas all he could afford | C |
| He drove me out in a bullock dray and his piggery met my view | B |
| Oh the pigs and geese were in the wheat of the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| The hut was made of the surface mud the roof of a reedy thatch | D |
| The doors and windows open flew without a bolt or latch | D |
| The pigs and geese were in the hut the hen on the table flew | B |
| And she laid an egg in the old tin plate for the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| For breakfast we had pollard boys it tasted like cobbler's paste | E |
| To help it down we had to eat brown bread with vinegar taste | E |
| The tea was made of the native hops which out on the ranges grew | B |
| 'Twas sweetened with honey bees and wax for the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| For dinner we had goanna hash we thought it mighty hard | F |
| They wouldn't give us butter so we forced down bread and lard | F |
| Quondong duff paddy melon pie and wallaby Irish stew | B |
| We used to eat while reaping for the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| When we started to cut the rust and smut was just beginning to shed | G |
| And all we had to sleep on was a dog and sheep skin bed | G |
| The bugs and fleas tormented me they made me scratch and screw | B |
| I lost my rest while reaping for the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
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| At night when work was over I'd nurse the youngest child | H |
| And when I'd say a joking word the mother would laugh and smile | I |
| The old cocky he grew jealous and he thumped me black and blue | B |
| And he drove me off without a rap the stringy bark cockatoo | B |
Banjo Paterson
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