The Bursting Of The Boom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCC EEFGCC DDCC HIJJCC DDCC KKLLCC MMCC NNEECC OOCC PPBBQQCCThe shipping office clerks are short the manager is gruff | A |
They cannot make reductions and the fares are low enough | A |
They ship us West with cattle and we go like cattle too | B |
And fight like dogs three times a day for what we get to chew | B |
We ll have the pick of empty bunks and lots of stretching room | C |
And go for next to nothing at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a show | D |
Then when the Boom bursts is our time to go | D |
We ll meet em coming back in shoals with looks of deepest gloom | C |
But we re the sort that battle through at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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The captain s easy going when Fremantle comes in sight | E |
He can t say when you ll get ashore perhaps tomorrow night | E |
Your coins are few the charges high you must not linger here | F |
You ll get your boxes from the hold when she s longside the pier | G |
The launch will foul the gangway and the trembling bulwarks loom | C |
Above a fleet of harbour craft at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a show | D |
He ll take you for a bob sir and where you want to go | D |
He ll take the big portmanteau sir if he might so presume | C |
You needn t hump your luggage at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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It s loafers Customs loafers and you pay and pay again | H |
They hinder you and cheat you from the gangway to the train | I |
The pubs and restaurants are full they haven t room for more | J |
They charge us each three shillings for a shakedown on the floor | J |
But Show this gentleman upstairs the first front parlour room | C |
We ll see about your luggage sir at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a show | D |
And wait till the Boom bursts and swear mighty low | D |
We mostly charge a pound a week How do you like the room | C |
And Show this gentleman the bath at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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I go down to the timber yard I cannot face the rent | K |
To get some strips of oregon to frame my hessian tent | K |
To buy some scraps of lumber for a table or a shelf | L |
The boss comes up and says I might just look round for myself | L |
The foreman grunts and turns away as silent as the tomb | C |
The boss himself will wait on me at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a load | M |
You had better take those scraps sir they re only in the road | M |
Now where the hell s the carter you ll hear the foreman fume | C |
And Take that timber round at once at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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Each one a penny grocer in his box of board and tin | N |
Will think it condescending to consent to take you in | N |
And not content with twice as much as what is just and right | E |
They charge and cheat you doubly for the Boom is at its height | E |
It s Take it now or leave it now your money or your room | C |
But Who s attending Mr Brown at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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So wait till the Boom bursts and take what you can get | O |
There s not the slightest hurry and your bill ain t ready yet | O |
They ll call and get your orders until the crack o doom | C |
And send them round directly at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
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No Country and no Brotherhood such things are dead and cold | P |
A camp from all the lands or none all mad for love of gold | P |
Where T othersider number one makes slave of number two | B |
And the vilest women of the world the vilest ways pursue | B |
And men go out and slave and bake and die in agony | Q |
In western hells that God forgot where never man should be | Q |
I feel a prophet in my heart that speaks the one word Doom | C |
And aye you ll hear the Devil laugh at the Bursting of the Boom | C |
Henry Lawson
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