The Bursting Of The Boom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The shipping office clerks are short the manager is gruffA
They cannot make reductions and the fares are low enoughA
They ship us West with cattle and we go like cattle tooB
And fight like dogs three times a day for what we get to chewB
We ll have the pick of empty bunks and lots of stretching roomC
And go for next to nothing at the Bursting of the BoomC
So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a showD
Then when the Boom bursts is our time to goD
We ll meet em coming back in shoals with looks of deepest gloomC
But we re the sort that battle through at the Bursting of the BoomC
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The captain s easy going when Fremantle comes in sightE
He can t say when you ll get ashore perhaps tomorrow nightE
Your coins are few the charges high you must not linger hereF
You ll get your boxes from the hold when she s longside the pierG
The launch will foul the gangway and the trembling bulwarks loomC
Above a fleet of harbour craft at the Bursting of the BoomC
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a showD
He ll take you for a bob sir and where you want to goD
He ll take the big portmanteau sir if he might so presumeC
You needn t hump your luggage at the Bursting of the BoomC
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It s loafers Customs loafers and you pay and pay againH
They hinder you and cheat you from the gangway to the trainI
The pubs and restaurants are full they haven t room for moreJ
They charge us each three shillings for a shakedown on the floorJ
But Show this gentleman upstairs the first front parlour roomC
We ll see about your luggage sir at the Bursting of the BoomC
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a showD
And wait till the Boom bursts and swear mighty lowD
We mostly charge a pound a week How do you like the roomC
And Show this gentleman the bath at the Bursting of the BoomC
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I go down to the timber yard I cannot face the rentK
To get some strips of oregon to frame my hessian tentK
To buy some scraps of lumber for a table or a shelfL
The boss comes up and says I might just look round for myselfL
The foreman grunts and turns away as silent as the tombC
The boss himself will wait on me at the Bursting of the BoomC
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So wait till the Boom bursts we ll all get a loadM
You had better take those scraps sir they re only in the roadM
Now where the hell s the carter you ll hear the foreman fumeC
And Take that timber round at once at the Bursting of the BoomC
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Each one a penny grocer in his box of board and tinN
Will think it condescending to consent to take you inN
And not content with twice as much as what is just and rightE
They charge and cheat you doubly for the Boom is at its heightE
It s Take it now or leave it now your money or your roomC
But Who s attending Mr Brown at the Bursting of the BoomC
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So wait till the Boom bursts and take what you can getO
There s not the slightest hurry and your bill ain t ready yetO
They ll call and get your orders until the crack o doomC
And send them round directly at the Bursting of the BoomC
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No Country and no Brotherhood such things are dead and coldP
A camp from all the lands or none all mad for love of goldP
Where T othersider number one makes slave of number twoB
And the vilest women of the world the vilest ways pursueB
And men go out and slave and bake and die in agonyQ
In western hells that God forgot where never man should beQ
I feel a prophet in my heart that speaks the one word DoomC
And aye you ll hear the Devil laugh at the Bursting of the BoomC

Henry Lawson



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