Sydney-side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDEE CCBB FFGG HHII EEBB CCBB| Where's the steward Bar room steward Berth Oh any berth will do | A |
| I have left a three pound billet just to come along with you | A |
| Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that s growing wide | B |
| But I think I d give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney Side | B |
| Run of rocky shelves at sunrise with their base on ocean s bed | C |
| Homes of Coogee homes of Bondi and the lighthouse on South Head | C |
| For in loneliness and hardship and with just a touch of pride | B |
| Has my heart been taught to whisper You belong to Sydney Side | B |
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| Oh there never dawned a morning in the long and lonely days | D |
| But I thought I saw the ferries streaming out across the bays | D |
| And as fresh and fair in fancy did the picture rise again | E |
| As the sunrise flushed the city from Woollahra to Balmain | E |
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| And the sunny water frothing round the liners black and red | C |
| And the coastal schooners working by the loom of Bradley s Head | C |
| And the whistles and the sirens that re echo far and wide | B |
| All the life and light and beauty that belong to Sydney Side | B |
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| And the dreary cloud line never veiled the end of one day more | F |
| But the city set in jewels rose before me from The Shore | F |
| Round the sea world shine the beacons of a thousand ports o call | G |
| But the harbour lights of Sydney are the grandest of them all | G |
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| Toiling out beyond Coolgardie heart and back and spirit broke | H |
| Where the Rover s Star gleams redly in the desert by the soak | H |
| But says one mate to the other Brace your lip and do not fret | I |
| We will laugh on trains and buses Sydney s in the same place yet | I |
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| Working in the South in winter to the waist in dripping fern | E |
| Where the local spirit hungers for each saxpence that we earn | E |
| We can stand it for a season for our world is growing wide | B |
| And they all are friends and strangers who belong to Sydney Side | B |
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| T other siders T other siders Yet we wake the dusty dead | C |
| It is we that send the backward province fifty years ahead | C |
| We it is that trim Australia making narrow country wide | B |
| Yet we re always T other siders till we sail for Sydney side | B |
Henry Lawson
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