The Brass Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FFFF GGHH IICC HHCC| 'Tis a legend of the bushmen from the days of Cunningham | A |
| When he opened up the country and the early squatters came | B |
| Tis the old tale of a fortune missed by men who did seek | C |
| And perhaps you haven t heard it The Brass Well on Myall Creek | C |
| They were north of running rivers they were south of Queensland rains | D |
| And a blazing drought was scorching every grass blade from the plains | D |
| So the stockmen drove the cattle to the range where there was grass | E |
| And a couple sunk a well and found what they believed was brass | E |
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| Here s some bloomin brass they muttered when they found it in the clay | F |
| And they thought no more about it and in time they went away | F |
| But they heard of gold and saw it somewhere down by Inverell | F |
| And they felt and weighed it crying Why we found it in the well | F |
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| And they worked about the station and at times they took the track | G |
| Always meaning to save money always meaning to go back | G |
| Always meanin like the bushmen who go drifting round like wrecks | H |
| And they d get half way to Myall strike a pub and blew their cheques | H |
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| Then they told two more about it and those other two grew old | I |
| And they never found the brass well and they never found the gold | I |
| For the scrub grows dense and quickly and though many went to seek | C |
| No one ever struck the lost track to the Well on Myall Creek | C |
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| And the story is forgotten and I m sitting here alas | H |
| With a woeful load of trouble and a woeful lack of brass | H |
| But I dream at times that I might find what many went to seek | C |
| And my luck might lead my footsteps to the Well at Myall Creek | C |
Henry Lawson
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