Heed Not! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDBFBGHIJI BKLKBMJM BBBBNOBO| Heed not the cock sure tourist | A |
| Seeing with English eyes | B |
| Stroked at the banquet table | C |
| Still with the old stock lies | B |
| Pet of a social circle | C |
| Guest in a garden fair | D |
| Free of the first class carriage | E |
| He learns no Australia there | D |
| Heed not the Southern humbugs | B |
| By the first saloons who come | F |
| From his work in the wide hot scrub lands | B |
| The Australian goes not home | G |
| Give them the toadies knighthood | H |
| Fit for the souls they ve got | I |
| Fear not to shame Australia | J |
| For Australia knows them not | I |
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| Heed not the Sydney dailies | B |
| Naught for the land they do | K |
| Heed not the Melbourne street crowd | L |
| For they know no more than you | K |
| Pent in the coastal cities | B |
| Still on the old world track | M |
| They know naught of Australia | J |
| Of the heart of the great Out Back | M |
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| But wait for the voice that gathers | B |
| Strength by the western creeks | B |
| Heed ye the Out Back shearers | B |
| List when the Great Bush speaks | B |
| Heed ye the black sheep working | N |
| His own salvation free | O |
| And Oh heed ye the sons of the exiles | B |
| When they speak of the things to be | O |
Henry Lawson
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