Those Names Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFCCGGAACC HHIJKKLDMLCC| The shearers sat in the firelight hearty and hale and strong | A |
| After the hard day's shearing passing the joke along | A |
| The 'ringer' that shore a hundred as they never were shorn before | B |
| And the novice who toiling bravely had tommy hawked half a score | B |
| The tarboy the cook and the slushy the sweeper that swept the board | C |
| The picker up and the penner with the rest of the shearing horde | C |
| There were men from the inland stations where the skies like a furnace glow | D |
| And men from Snowy River the land of frozen snow | D |
| There were swarthy Queensland drovers who reckoned all land by miles | E |
| And farmers' sons from the Murray where many a vineyard smiles | E |
| They started at telling stories when they wearied of cards and games | F |
| And to give these stories flavour they threw in some local names | F |
| Then a man from the bleak Monaro away on the tableland | C |
| He fixed his eyes on the ceiling and he started to play his hand | C |
| He told them of Adjintoothbong where the pine clad mountains freeze | G |
| And the weight of the snow in summer breaks branches off the trees | G |
| And as he warmed to the business he let them have it strong | A |
| Nimitybelle Conargo Wheeo Bongongolong | A |
| He lingered over them fondly because they recalled to mind | C |
| A thought of the bush homestead and the girl that he left behind | C |
| Then the shearers all sat silent till a man in the corner rose | H |
| Said he 'I've travelled a plenty but never heard names like those | H |
| Out in the western districts out in the Castlereigh | I |
| Most of the names are easy short for a man to say | J |
| You've heard of Mungrybambone and the Gundabluey Pine | K |
| Quobbotha Girilambone and Terramungamine | K |
| Quambone Eunonyhareenyha Wee Waa and Buntijo ' | L |
| But the rest of the shearers stopped him 'For the sake of your jaw go slow | D |
| If you reckon thase names are short ones out where such names prevail | M |
| Just try and remember some long ones before you begin the tale ' | L |
| And the man from the western district though never a word he siad | C |
| Just winked with his dexter eyelid and then he retired to bed | C |
Banjo Paterson
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