By Hut, Homestead And Shearing Shed, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EDFGHGIDJD KLKLDMNM OPQPRARA STSTUDGDBy hut homestead and shearing shed | A |
By railroad coach and track | B |
By lonely graves where rest the dead | A |
Up Country and Out Back | B |
To where beneath the clustered stars | C |
The dreamy plains expand | D |
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My home lies wide a thousand miles | E |
In Never Never Land | D |
It lies beyond the farming belt | F |
Wide wastes of scrub and plain | G |
A blazing desert in the drought | H |
A lake land after rain | G |
To the skyline sweeps the waving grass | I |
Or whirls the scorching sand | D |
A phantom land a mystic realm | J |
The Never Never Land | D |
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Where lone Mount Desolation lies | K |
Mounts Dreadful and Despair | L |
'Tis lost beneath the rainless skies | K |
In hopeless deserts there | L |
It spreads nor west by No Man's Land | D |
Where clouds are seldom seen | M |
To where the cattle stations lie | N |
Three hundred miles between | M |
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The drovers of the Great Stock Routes | O |
The strange Gulf country Know | P |
Where travelling from the southern droughts | Q |
The big lean bullocks go | P |
And camped by night where plains lie wide | R |
Like some old ocean's bed | A |
The watchmen in the starlight ride | R |
Round fifteen hundred head | A |
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Lest in the city I forget | S |
True mateship after all | T |
My water bag and billy yet | S |
Are hanging on the wall | T |
And I to save my soul again | U |
Would tramp to sunsets grand | D |
With sad eyed mates across the plain | G |
In Never Never Land | D |
Henry Lawson
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