The Bard Of Furthest Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHGHIJIJ KIKIJLJL MIMINONO PFMFQRQR RSRSTUTU MDMDGSGS MFMFMVMV VMVMMMMM MVFVMMMMHe longed to be a Back Blocks Bard | A |
And fame he wished to win | B |
He wrote at night and studied hard | A |
He read The Bulletin | C |
He sent in stuff unceasingly | D |
But couldn t get it through | E |
And so at last he came to me | F |
To see what I could do | E |
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The poet s light was in his eye | G |
He aimed to be a man | H |
He bought a bluey and a fly | G |
A brand new billy can | H |
I showed him how to roll his swag | I |
And sling it with the best | J |
I gave him my old water bag | I |
And pointed to the west | J |
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Now you can take the train as far | K |
As Blazes if you like | I |
The wealthy go by motor car | K |
Some travellers go by bike | I |
They race it through without a rest | J |
And find it very tame | L |
But if you tramp it to the west | J |
You ll get there just the same | L |
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No matter if the hour is late | M |
The morning goes Out Back | I |
You do not need a dog nor mate | M |
You ll find them on the track | I |
You must avoid such deadly rhymes | N |
As self and elf and shelf | O |
But were it as in other times | N |
I d go with you myself | O |
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Those days are done for me but ah | P |
On hills where you shall be | F |
The wattle and the waratah | M |
Are good to smell and see | F |
But there s a scent my heart believes | Q |
That travellers set higher | R |
Than wattle tis the dried gum leaves | Q |
That light the evening fire | R |
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The evening fire and morning fire | R |
Are one fire in the Bush | S |
You ll find the points that you require | R |
As towards the west you push | S |
And as you pass by ancient ways | T |
Old camps and mountain springs | U |
The spirits of the Roaring Days | T |
Will whisper many things | U |
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The lonely ridge and gully belt | M |
The spirit of the whole | D |
It must be seen it must be felt | M |
Must sink into your soul | D |
The summer silence creek oaks sigh | G |
The windy rainy woosh | S |
Tis known to other men and I | G |
The Spirit of the Bush | S |
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So on and on through dust and heat | M |
When past the spurs you be | F |
And you shall meet whom you shall meet | M |
And see what you shall see | F |
You need not claim the stranger s due | M |
They yield it everywhere | V |
And mateship is a thing that you | M |
Must take for granted there | V |
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And in the land of Lord knows where | V |
Right up and furthest out | M |
You find a new Australia there | V |
That we know nought about | M |
Live as they live fight as they fight | M |
Succeed as they succeed | M |
And then come back again and write | M |
For all the world to read | M |
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I ve got a note from Hungerford | M |
Tis written frank and fair | V |
The bushman s grim philosophy | F |
The bushman s grin are there | V |
And tramping on through rain and drought | M |
Unlooked for and unmissed | M |
I may have sent to furthest out | M |
The Great Bush Novelist | M |
Henry Lawson
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