Knights Of The Never Never Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFF CCGGHHI JKEELL M NNOOIIPP| When I rode with young Sid Kidman out across the Yarrowie Plain | A |
| In that year the Long Drought ended and the northlands smiled again | B |
| As we took the old Tarcowie track and on to Booleroo | C |
| His keen eye scanned the country and we yarned of men we knew | D |
| Mal Murray and Jim Spicer of Jasser and Judell | E |
| Bill Mitchell and old stagers whom I still remember well | E |
| And he told of chance missed fortunes when the game was in his grasp | F |
| Of life along The Barrier with German Charlie Rasp | F |
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| Now back in Kidman country where the grizzled bushmen are | C |
| In many a stark out station o'er many a shanty bar | C |
| The drovers' drawling voices talk about 'Old Sid' today | G |
| 'Bushmen like him ain't raised no more ' the grizzled veterans say | G |
| For o'er the furthest saltbush lands his questing mind went out | H |
| To glimpse high opportunity where others saw black drought | H |
| Shrewd eyed yet greatly daring laughing he ventured forth | I |
| To stake his luck his judgment 'gainst swift treacheries 'up north ' | - |
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| 'I mind the time I rode with him ' a wizened stockman says | J |
| 'He knowed that country like a map an' all the tricks an' ways | K |
| 'Aye and he knowed the cattle game ' The voices drone and drawl | E |
| Till 'The time I rode for Kidman ' is the burden of them all | E |
| 'Deserved his luck Too right he did seein' how he began | L |
| But times like them don't come again for us or any man | L |
| Them meddlin' airyplans an' sich brings old days to an end ' | - |
| And so they mourn no magnate but a bushman and a friend | M |
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| So the best known bushman passes in the fullness of his years | N |
| And with his passing so an olden order disappears | N |
| Sid Kidman Jimmy Tyson rugged princes of Outback | O |
| Who sought their fortunes far afield along the arid track | O |
| Strong men who taking heart of grace unflinchingly rode forth | I |
| To play a rough grim game and win against the stubborn North | I |
| To become a land's tradition future figures of romance | P |
| Busmen who fought and loved their bush the men who took a chance | P |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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