The Never-never Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIDDD JKJKDLML NOHOPAPA QPRPCDSD THTHUPUP VWXWBPPP PPPPEYPY POPOPPPP PZPZA2PA2P| By homestead hut and shearing shed | A |
| By railroad coach and track | B |
| By lonely graves of our brave dead | A |
| Up Country and Out Back | B |
| To where 'neath glorious the clustered stars | C |
| The dreamy plains expand | D |
| My home lies wide a thousand miles | E |
| In the Never Never Land | D |
| - | |
| It lies beyond the farming belt | F |
| Wide wastes of scrub and plain | G |
| A blazing desert in the drought | H |
| A lake land after rain | G |
| To the sky line sweeps the waving grass | I |
| Or whirls the scorching sand | D |
| A phantom land a mystic land | D |
| The Never Never Land | D |
| - | |
| Where lone Mount Desolation lies | J |
| Mounts Dreadful and Despair | K |
| 'Tis lost beneath the rainless skies | J |
| In hopeless deserts there | K |
| It spreads nor' west by No Man's Land | D |
| Where clouds are seldom seen | L |
| To where the cattle stations lie | M |
| Three hundred miles between | L |
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| The drovers of the Great Stock Routes | N |
| The strange Gulf country know | O |
| Where travelling from the southern drought | H |
| The big lean bullocks go | O |
| And camped by night where plains lie wide | P |
| Like some old ocean's bed | A |
| The watchmen in the starlight ride | P |
| Round fifteen hundred head | A |
| - | |
| And west of named and numbered days | Q |
| The shearers walk and ride | P |
| Jack Cornstalk and the Ne'er do well | R |
| And the grey beard side by side | P |
| They veil their eyes from moon and stars | C |
| And slumber on the sand | D |
| Sad memories steep as years go round | S |
| In Never Never Land | D |
| - | |
| By lonely huts north west of Bourke | T |
| Through years of flood and drought | H |
| The best of English black sheep work | T |
| Their own salvation out | H |
| Wild fresh faced boys grown gaunt and brown | U |
| Stiff lipped and haggard eyed | P |
| They live the Dead Past grimly down | U |
| Where boundary riders ride | P |
| - | |
| The College Wreck who sank beneath | V |
| Then rose above his shame | W |
| Tramps west in mateship with the man | X |
| Who cannot write his name | W |
| 'Tis there where on the barren track | B |
| No last half crust's begrudged | P |
| Where saint and sinner side by side | P |
| Judge not and are not judged | P |
| - | |
| Oh rebels to society | P |
| The Outcasts of the West | P |
| Oh hopeless eyes that smile for me | P |
| And broken hearts that jest | P |
| The pluck to face a thousand miles | E |
| The grit to see it through | Y |
| The communion perfected | P |
| And I am proud of you | Y |
| - | |
| The Arab to true desert sand | P |
| The Finn to fields of snow | O |
| The Flax stick turns to Maoriland | P |
| While the seasons come and go | O |
| And this old fact comes home to me | P |
| And will not let me rest | P |
| However barren it may be | P |
| Your own land is the best | P |
| - | |
| And lest at ease I should forget | P |
| True mateship after all | Z |
| My water bag and billy yet | P |
| Are hanging on the wall | Z |
| And if my fate should show the sign | A2 |
| I'd tramp to sunsets grand | P |
| With gaunt and stern eyed mates of mine | A2 |
| In the Never Never Land | P |
Henry Lawson
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