Shearing's Coming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BB CCDD BB EEDD BB BBFF BB| There's a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track | A |
| And letters coming up in shoals to stations at the back | A |
| And every boat that crosses from the sunny 'other side' | B |
| Is bringing waves of shearers for the swelling of the tide | B |
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| For the shearing's coming round boys the shearing's coming round | B |
| And the stations of the mountains have begun to hear the sound | B |
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| They'll be talking up at Laghmor of the tallies that were shore | C |
| And the man who broke the record is remembered at Benmore | C |
| And the yarns of strikes and barneys will be told till all is blue | D |
| And the ringers and the bosses will be passed in long review | D |
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| For the shearing's coming round boys the shearing's coming round | B |
| And the stations of the mountains have begun to hear the sound | B |
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| The great Orari muster and the drafting of the men | E |
| Like a mob of ewes and wethers will be surely told again | E |
| And a lot of heathen places that will rhyme with kangaroo | D |
| Will be named along with ringers and the things that they can do | D |
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| For the shearing's coming round boys the shearing's coming round | B |
| And the stations of the mountains have begun to hear the sound | B |
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| At last the crowds will gather for the morning of the start | B |
| And the slowest of the jokers will be trying to look smart | B |
| And a few will get the bullet and high hopes will have a fall | F |
| And the bloke that talks the loudest stands a show of looking small | F |
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| For the shearing's coming round chaps the shearing's coming round | B |
| And the voices of the workers have begun to swell the sound | B |
David Mckee Wright
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