Shearers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDED FGFGHG G AIJIKI I LGM KNIN OPIPQBFB| No church bell rings them from the Track | A |
| No pulpit lights their blindness | B |
| 'Tis hardship drought and homelessness | B |
| That teach those Bushmen kindness | B |
| The mateship born of barren lands | C |
| Of toil and thirst and danger | D |
| The camp fare for the stranger set | E |
| The first place to the stranger | D |
| - | |
| They do the best they can to day | F |
| Take no thought of the morrow | G |
| Their way is not the old world way | F |
| They live to lend and borrow | G |
| When shearing's done and cheques gone wrong | H |
| They call it 'time to slither' | G |
| They saddle up and say 'So long ' | - |
| And ride the Lord knows whither | G |
| - | |
| And though he may be brown or black | A |
| Or wrong man there or right man | I |
| The mate that's honest to his mates | J |
| They call that man a 'white man' | I |
| They tramp in mateship side by side | K |
| The Protestant and 'Roman' | I |
| They call no biped lord or 'sir ' | - |
| And touch their hats to no man | I |
| - | |
| They carry in their swags perhaps | L |
| A portrait and a letter | G |
| And maybe deep down in their hearts | M |
| The hope of 'something better ' | - |
| Where lonely miles are long to ride | K |
| And all days seem recurrent | N |
| There's lots of time to think of men | I |
| They might have been but weren't | N |
| - | |
| They turn their faces to the west | O |
| And leave the world behind them | P |
| Their drought dried graves are seldom green | I |
| Where even mates can find them | P |
| They know too little of the world | Q |
| To rise to wealth or greatness | B |
| But in this book of mine I pay | F |
| My tribute to their straightness | B |
Henry Lawson
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