Billy Of Queensland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP| Queensland he heads his letters that s all | A |
| The date and the month and the year in brief | B |
| He often sends me a cheerful scrawl | A |
| With an undertone of ancient grief | B |
| The first seems familiar but might have changed | C |
| As often the writing of wanderers will | D |
| He seems all over the world to have ranged | C |
| And he signs himself William or Billy or Bill | D |
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| He might have been an old mate of mine | E |
| A shearer or one of the station hands | F |
| There were some of em died who drop me a line | E |
| Signing other names and in other hands | F |
| There was one who carried his swag with me | G |
| On the western tracks when the world was young | H |
| And now he is spouting democracy | G |
| In another land with another tongue | H |
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| He cheers me up like an old mate quite | I |
| And swears at times like an old mate too | J |
| Perhaps he knows that I never write | I |
| Except to say that I m going to | J |
| He says he is tired of telling lies | K |
| For a Blank he knows for a Gory Scamp | L |
| But I note the tone where the sunset dies | K |
| On the Outside Track or the cattle camp | L |
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| Who are you Billy But never mind | M |
| Come to think of it I forgot | N |
| There were so many in days behind | M |
| And all so true that it matters not | N |
| It may be out in the Mulga scrub | O |
| In the southern seas or a London street | P |
| I hope it s close to a bar or pub | O |
| But I have a feeling that we shall meet | P |
Henry Lawson
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