The New Chum Jackeroo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDC BFBF FFFF FBFB CBCB BGBG FHFH BBBB BIBJ FFFF| Let bushmen think as bushmen will | A |
| And say whate er they choose | B |
| I hate to hear the stupid sneer | C |
| At New Chum Jackaroos | B |
| He may not ride as you can ride | D |
| Or do what you can do | E |
| But sometimes you d seem small beside | D |
| The New Chum Jackaroo | C |
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| His share of work he never shirks | B |
| And through the blazing drought | F |
| He lives the old things down and works | B |
| His own salvation out | F |
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| When older wiser chums despond | F |
| He battles brave of heart | F |
| Twas he who sailed of old beyond | F |
| The margin of the chart | F |
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| Twas he who proved the world was round | F |
| In crazy square canoes | B |
| The lands you re living in were found | F |
| By New Chum Jackaroos | B |
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| He crossed the deserts hot and bare | C |
| From barren hungry shores | B |
| The plains that you would scarcely dare | C |
| With all your tanks and bores | B |
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| He fought a way through stubborn hills | B |
| Towards the setting sun | G |
| Your fathers all and Burke and Wills | B |
| Were New Chums every one | G |
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| When England fought with all the world | F |
| In those brave days gone by | H |
| And all its strength against her hurled | F |
| He held her honour high | H |
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| By Southern palms and Northern pines | B |
| Where er was life to lose | B |
| She held her own with thin red lines | B |
| Of New Chum Jackaroos | B |
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| Through shot and shell and solitudes | B |
| Wherever feet have gone | I |
| The New Chums fought while eye glass dudes | B |
| And Johnnies led them on | J |
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| And though he wear a foppish coat | F |
| And these old things forget | F |
| In stormy times I d give a vote | F |
| For Cuffs and Collars yet | F |
Henry Lawson
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