The Shearers Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BB CCDD EEFF GGHHO I dreamt I shore in a shearing shed and it was a dream of joy | A |
For every one of the rouseabouts was a girl dressed up as a boy | A |
Dressed up like a page in a pantomime the prettiest ever seen | B |
They had flaxen hair they had coal black hair and every shade between | B |
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There was short plump girls there was tall slim girls and the handsomest ever seen | B |
They was four foot five they was six foot high and every shade between | B |
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The shed was cooled by electric fans that was over every shoot | C |
The pens was of polished mahogany and everything else to suit | C |
The huts had springs to the mattresses and the tucker was simply grand | D |
And every night by the billabong we danced to a German band | D |
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Our pay was the wool on the jumbucks' backs so we shore till all was blue | E |
The sheep was washed afore they was shore and the rams were scented too | E |
And we all of us cried when the shed cut out in spite of the long hot days | F |
For every hour them girls waltzed in with whisky and beer on trays | F |
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There was three of them girls to every chap and as jealous as they could be | G |
There was three of them girls to every chap and six of them picked on me | G |
We was drafting them out for the homeward track and sharing them round like steam | H |
When I woke with my head in the blazing sun to find it a shearer's dream | H |
Henry Lawson
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