The Listening Week Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDB EBEBFFFB GBGBHHHB IBIBJJJB| This is the listening week of the year | A |
| Listening in | B |
| A cock and alert is the national ear | C |
| Listening in | B |
| All over the land in the country towns | D |
| From the back of the Leeuwin to Darling Downs | D |
| Layers of 'quids' or the odd half crowns | D |
| They are listening in | B |
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| On the far flung farms they are round each set | E |
| Listening in | B |
| The work and the worry they all forget | E |
| Listening in | B |
| Wherever an aerial soars in space | F |
| To the Cup or the Oaks or the Steeplechase | F |
| To the roar of the ring and the lure of the race | F |
| They are listening in | B |
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| In the far outback there are sun tanned men | G |
| Listening in | B |
| Where the woolshed stands by the drafting pen | G |
| Listening in | B |
| Old Dad's come in from the Ninety Mile | H |
| He scored on the Cup and he wears a smile | H |
| And he 'reckons this game is well worth while' | H |
| So he's listening in | B |
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| To the edge of the desert the sound waves go | I |
| And listening in | B |
| Ned of the Overland Saltbush Joe | I |
| Listening in | B |
| Recall the giants of years long past | J |
| And the loneliness of these spaces vast | J |
| But they reckon that life's worth living at last | J |
| With this listening in | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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