The Barcoo (the Squatters' Song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEDFGFG EEEEBHEIHJKJI| From the runs of the Narran wide dotted with sheep | A |
| And loud with the lowing of cattle | B |
| We speed for a land where the strange forests sleep | A |
| And the hidden creeks bubble and brattle | B |
| Now call on the horses and leave the blind courses | C |
| And sources of rivers that all of us know | D |
| For crossing the ridges and passing the ledges | E |
| And running up gorges we'll come to the verges | E |
| Of gullies where waters eternally flow | D |
| Oh the herds they will rush down the spurs of the hill | F |
| To feed on the grasses so cool and so sweet | G |
| And I think that my life with delight will stand still | F |
| When we halt with the pleasant Barcoo at our feet | G |
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| Good bye to the Barwon and brigalow scrubs | E |
| Adieu to the Culgoa ranges | E |
| But look for the mulga and salt bitten shrubs | E |
| Though the face of the forest land changes | E |
| The leagues we may travel down beds of hot gravel | B |
| And clay crusted reaches where moisture hath been | H |
| While searching for waters may vex us and thwart us | E |
| Yet who would be quailing or fainting or failing | I |
| Not you who are men of the Narran I ween | H |
| When we leave the dry channels away to the south | J |
| And reach the far plains we are journeying to | K |
| We will cry though our lips may be glued with the drouth | J |
| Hip hip and hurrah for the pleasant Barcoo | I |
Henry Kendall
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