Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse | A |
| The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest curse | A |
| While you glorify the bully and take the spieler's part | B |
| You're a clever southern writer scarce inferior to Bret Harte | B |
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| If you sing of waving grasses when the plains are dry as bricks | C |
| And discover shining rivers where there's only mud and sticks | C |
| If you picture mighty forests' where the mulga spoils the view | D |
| You're superior to Kendall and ahead of Gordon too | D |
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| If you swear there's not a country like the land that gave you birth | E |
| And its sons are just the noblest and most glorious chaps on earth | E |
| If in every girl a Venus your poetic eye discerns | F |
| You are gracefully referred to as the young Australian Burns' | F |
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| But if you should find that bushmen spite of all the poets say | G |
| Are just common brother sinners and you're quite as good as they | G |
| You're a drunkard and a liar and a cynic and a sneak | H |
| Your grammar's simply awful and your intellect is weak | H |
Henry Lawson
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