A Word From The Bards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCB DEBBFB GGBBGB HHBBIB GGBBGB| IT IS New Year s Day and I rise to state that here on the Sydney side | A |
| The Bards have commenced to fill out of late and they re showing their binjies with pride | A |
| They re patting their binjies with pride old man and I want you to understand | B |
| That a binjied bard is a bard indeed when he sings in the Southern Land | B |
| Old chaps | C |
| When he sings in the Southern Land | B |
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| For the Southern Land is the Poet s Home and over the world s wide roam | D |
| There was never till now a binjied bard that lived in a poet s home old man | E |
| For the poet s home was a hell on earth and I want you to understand | B |
| That it isn t exactly a paradise down here in the Southern Land | B |
| Old chap | F |
| Down here in the Southern Land | B |
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| The Beer and the Bailiff were gone last night and the temple doorstep clean | G |
| And our heads are clear and our hearts are light with wine from the Riverine | G |
| With wine from the Riverine old man and I want you to understand | B |
| That Bard Beer and Bailiff too long were kin down here in the Southern Land | B |
| Old man | G |
| Down here in the Southern Land | B |
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| It is not because of a larger fee nor yet that the bards are free | H |
| For the bards I know and the bards I see are married enough for three | H |
| Are married enough for three old man and I want you to understand | B |
| They ve a right to be married enough for four down here in the Southern Land | B |
| My girl | I |
| Down here in the Southern Land | B |
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| But I think it s because a bird went round and twittered in ears of men | G |
| That bards have care and the world seems bare as seen from the rhyming den | G |
| And twittered in ears of men old chaps and got folks to understand | B |
| That a poet is something more than a joke down here in the Southern Land | B |
| Old man | G |
| Down here in the Southern Land | B |
Henry Lawson
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