The Southerly Buster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHDJKJ JLMLNJGJ JOPODJQJ RSJSRTJT DJTJSUKU GRIRDJKJ| There's a wind that blows out of the South in the drought | A |
| And we pray for the touch of his breath | B |
| When siroccos come forth from the North West and North | C |
| Or in dead calms of fever and death | B |
| With eyes glad and dim we should sing him a hymn | D |
| For depression and death are his foes | E |
| And he gives us new life for the bread winning strife | F |
| When the glorious Old Southerly blows | E |
| Old Southerly Buster your forces you muster | G |
| Where seldom a wind bloweth twice | H |
| And your white caps have hint of the snow caps and glint of | I |
| The far away barriers of ice | H |
| No wind the wide sea on can sing such a poean | D |
| Or do the great work that you do | J |
| Our own wind and only from seas wild and lonely | K |
| Old Southerly Buster To you | J |
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| Oh the city is baked and its thirst is unslaked | J |
| Though it swallows iced drinks by the score | L |
| And the blurred sky is low and the air seems aglow | M |
| As if breezes would cool it no more | L |
| We are watching all hands where the Post Office stands | N |
| We are watching out hopefully too | J |
| For a red light shall glower from the Post Office tower | G |
| When the Southerly Buster is due | J |
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| The yachts run away at the end of the day | J |
| From the breakers commencing to comb | O |
| For a few he may swamp in the health giving romp | P |
| With the friendly Old Southerly home | O |
| But he never drowns one for the drowning is done | D |
| By the fools or the reckless in sport | J |
| And the alleys and slums shall be cooled when he comes | Q |
| With the weary wind jammers to port | J |
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| Oh softly he plays through the city s hot ways | R |
| To the beds where they re calling Come quick | S |
| He is gentle and mild round the feverish child | J |
| And he cools the hot brow of the sick | S |
| Clearing drought hazy skies up the North Coast he hies | R |
| Till the mouths of our rivers are fair | T |
| And along the sea too he has good work to do | J |
| For he takes the old timber tubs there | T |
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| Tis a glorious mission Old Sydney s Physician | D |
| Broom Bucket and Cloth of the East | J |
| Tis a breeze and a sprayer that answers our prayer | T |
| And it s free to the greatest and least | J |
| The red lamp s a warning to drought and its scorning | S |
| A sign to the city at large | U |
| Hence Headache and Worry Despondency hurry | K |
| Old Southerly Buster s in charge | U |
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| Old Southerly Buster your forces you muster | G |
| Where seldom a wind bloweth twice | R |
| And your white caps have hint of the snow caps and glint of | I |
| The far away barriers of ice | R |
| No wind the wide sea on can sing such a poean | D |
| Or do the great work that you do | J |
| Our own wind and only from seas wild and lonely | K |
| Old Southerly Buster To you | J |
Henry Lawson
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