Westward Ho! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK LLMM| There's a damper in the ashes tea and sugar in the bags | A |
| There's whips of feed and shelter on the sandridge for the nags | A |
| There's gidya wood about us and water close at hand | B |
| And just one bottle left yet of the good Glenlivet brand | B |
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| There are chops upon the embers which same are close up done | C |
| From as fine a four tooth wether as there is on Crossbred's run | C |
| 'Twas a proverb on the Darling the truth of which I hold | D |
| That mutton's aye the sweetest which was never bought nor sold | D |
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| Out of fifty thousand wethers surely Crossbred shouldn't miss | E |
| A sheep or so to travellers faith 'tis dainty mutton this | E |
| Let's drink a nip to Crossbred ah you drain it with a grin | F |
| Then shove along the billy mate and squatted let's wade in | F |
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| The night's a trifle chilly and the stars are very bright | G |
| A heavy dew is falling but the fly is rigged aright | G |
| You may rest your bones till morning then if you chance to wake | H |
| Give me a call about the time that daylight starts to break | H |
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| We may not camp to morrow for we've many a mile to go | I |
| Ere we turn our horses' heads round to make tracks for down below | I |
| There's many a water course to cross and many a black soil plain | J |
| And many a mile of mulga ridge ere we get back again | K |
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| That time five moons shall wax and wane we'll finish up the work | L |
| Have the bullocks o'er the border and truck 'em down from Bourke | L |
| And when they're sold at Homebush and the agents settle up | M |
| Sing hey a spell in Sydney town and Melbourne for the Cup | M |
Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant
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