'musterin' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEBGHGH FIFIJKJK FFFFFLFL| Oh I've ridden 'em rough an' I've ridden 'em kind | A |
| Brumbies and prads well bred | B |
| Of every colour and every kind | A |
| The old stock rider said | B |
| I've broken the wild Blanchwater colts | C |
| An' Walers from down Noo South | D |
| An' every sort that bucks or bolts | C |
| With every sort of mouth | D |
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| An' I thought I knew the musterin' game | E |
| Right thro' from A to Z | F |
| An' every sort of nag you'd name | E |
| The old stock rider said | B |
| I've wheeled 'em up in the Queensland scrub | G |
| An' tailed 'em back o' Bourke | H |
| To skite in many an old bush pub | G |
| I was master of all bush work | H |
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| But musterin' cattle be aeroplanes | F |
| What profit does it bring | I |
| An' I don't see how a bushman gains | F |
| For it ain't a natural thing | I |
| Soaring' and roarin' an' rampin' round | J |
| In a rackety tin machine | K |
| When a natural horse on natural ground | J |
| Beats all yer keraseen | K |
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| I suppose it's progress as they say | F |
| But the thing's against all laws | F |
| So I'm saddlin' up an' I'm off away | F |
| Where they ain't got them gee gaws | F |
| For I got no time for aeroplanes | F |
| But a prad with a good kind eye | L |
| An' the press o' the knee and the feel of the reins | F |
| Is my game till I die | L |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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