Jack Dunn Of Nevertire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCC DDEECCCCC DDCCCCCCC FFGGCCCCC HHIICCCC JJKK KKKK L KKKK MMKKKKKK| It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done | A |
| A buggy brought a stranger to the West o' Sunday Run | A |
| He had a round and jolly face and he was sleek and stout | B |
| He drove right up between the huts and called the super out | B |
| We chaps were smoking after tea and heard the swell enquire | C |
| For one as travelled by the name of Dunn of Nevertire' | C |
| Jack Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Poor Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| There wasn't one of us but knew Jack Dunn of Nevertire | C |
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| Jack Dunn of Nevertire ' he said I was a mate of his | D |
| And now it's twenty years since I set eyes upon his phiz | D |
| There is no whiter man than Jack no straighter south the line | E |
| There is no hand in all the land I'd sooner grip in mine | E |
| To help a mate in trouble Jack would go through flood and fire | C |
| Great Scott and don't you know the name of Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Big Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Long Jack from Nevertire | C |
| He stuck to me through thick and thin Jack Dunn of Nevertire | C |
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| I did a wild and foolish thing while Jack and I were mates | D |
| And I disgraced my guv'nor's name an' wished to try the States | D |
| My lamps were turned to Yankee Land for I'd some people there | C |
| And I was right when someone sent the money for my fare | C |
| I thought 'twas Dad until I took the trouble to enquire | C |
| And found that he who sent the stuff was Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Jack Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Soft Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| He'd won some money on a race Jack Dunn of Nevertire | C |
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| Now I've returned by Liverpool a swell of Yankee brand | F |
| To reckon guess and kalkilate 'n' wake my native land | F |
| There is no better land I swear in all the wide world round | G |
| I smelt the bush a month before we touched King George's Sound | G |
| And now I've come to settle down the top of my desire | C |
| Is just to meet a mate o' mine called Dunn of Nevertire' | C |
| Was raised at Nevertire | C |
| The town of Nevertire | C |
| He humped his bluey by the name of Dunn of Nevertire' | C |
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| I've heard he's poor and if he is a proud old fool is he | H |
| But spite of that I'll find a way to fix the old gum tree | H |
| I've bought a station in the North the best that could be had | I |
| I want a man to pick the stock I want a super bad | I |
| I want no bully brute to boss no crawling sneaking liar | C |
| My station super's name shall be Jack Dunn of Nevertire' | C |
| Straight Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| Old Dunn of Nevertire | C |
| I guess he's known up Queensland way Jack Dunn of Nevertire ' | - |
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| The super said while to his face a strange expression came | J |
| I THINK I've seen the man you want I THINK I know the name | J |
| Had he a jolly kind of face a free and careless way | K |
| Gray eyes that always seem'd to smile and hair just turning gray | K |
| Clean shaved except a light moustache long limbed an' tough as wire ' | - |
| THAT'S HIM THAT'S DUNN ' the stranger roared Jack Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| John Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| Jack D from Nevertire | K |
| They said I'd find him here the cuss Jack Dunn of Nevertire | K |
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| I'd know his walk ' the stranger cried though sobered I'll allow ' | - |
| I doubt it much ' the boss replied he don't walk that way now ' | - |
| Perhaps he don't ' the stranger said for years were hard on Jack | L |
| But if he were a mile away I swear I'd know his back ' | - |
| I doubt it much ' the super said and sadly puffed his briar | K |
| I guess he wears a pair of wings Jack Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| Jack Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| Brave Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| He caught a fever nursing me Jack Dunn of Nevertire ' | - |
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| We took the stranger round to where a gum tree stood alone | M |
| And in the grass beside the trunk he saw a granite stone | M |
| The names of Dunn and Nevertire were plainly written there | K |
| I'm all broke up ' the stranger said in sorrow and despair | K |
| I guess he has a wider run the man that I require | K |
| He's got a river frontage now Jack Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| Straight Dunn of Nevertire | K |
| White Jack from Nevertire | K |
| I guess Saint Peter knew the name of Dunn of Nevertire' ' | - |
Henry Lawson
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