Poet Henry Lawson

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Billy Of Queensland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP

Queensland he heads his letters that s allA
The date and the month and the year in briefB
He often sends me a cheerful scrawlA
With an undertone of ancient griefB
The first seems familiar but might have changedC
As often the writing of wanderers willD
He seems all over the world to have rangedC
And he signs himself William or Billy or BillD
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He might have been an old mate of mineE
A shearer or one of the station handsF
There were some of em died who drop me a lineE
Signing other names and in other handsF
There was one who carried his swag with meG
On the western tracks when the world was youngH
And now he is spouting democracyG
In another land with another tongueH
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He cheers me up like an old mate quiteI
And swears at times like an old mate tooJ
Perhaps he knows that I never writeI
Except to say that I m going toJ
He says he is tired of telling liesK
For a Blank he knows for a Gory ScampL
But I note the tone where the sunset diesK
On the Outside Track or the cattle campL
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Who are you Billy But never mindM
Come to think of it I forgotN
There were so many in days behindM
And all so true that it matters notN
It may be out in the Mulga scrubO
In the southern seas or a London streetP
I hope it s close to a bar or pubO
But I have a feeling that we shall meetP

Henry Lawson



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