The Shearers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDCEFEFGCGC AHBHIJCH BCBCIKLK MNDNOBEB| No church bell rings them from the Track | A |
| No pulpit lights theirblindness | B |
| 'Tis hardship drought and homelessness | B |
| That teach those Bushmen kindness | B |
| The mateship born in barren lands | B |
| Of toil and thirst and danger | C |
| The camp fare for the wanderer set | D |
| The first place to the stranger | C |
| They do the best they can to day | E |
| Take no thought of the morrow | F |
| Their way is not the old world way | E |
| They live to lend and borrow | F |
| When shearing's done and cheques gone wrong | G |
| They call it time to slither | C |
| They saddle up and say So long | G |
| And ride the Lord knows whither | C |
| - | |
| And though he may be brown or black | A |
| Or wrong man there or right man | H |
| The mate that's steadfast to his mates | B |
| They call that man a white man | H |
| They tramp in mateship side by side | I |
| The Protestant and Roman | J |
| They call no biped lord or sir | C |
| And touch their hat to no man | H |
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| They carry in their swags perhaps | B |
| A portrait and a letter | C |
| And maybe deep down in their hearts | B |
| The hope of something better | C |
| Where lonely miles are long to ride | I |
| And long hot days recurrent | K |
| There's lots of time to think of men | L |
| They might have been but weren't | K |
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| They turn their faces to the west | M |
| And leave the world behind them | N |
| Their drought dry graves are seldom set | D |
| Where even mates can find them | N |
| They know too little of the world | O |
| To rise to wealth or greatness | B |
| But in these lines I gladly pay | E |
| My tribute to their greatness | B |
Henry Lawson
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Ryan hayhoe: Very emotional. I am very emotional to this
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