The Gumsucker's Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FGHB IBJB KBLB MNOB PBQB RBSB TBUB VBKB WBXB| Sing the evil days we see and the worse that are to be | A |
| In such doggerel as dejection will allow | B |
| We are pilgrims sorrow led with no Beulah on ahead | C |
| No elysian Up the Country for us now | B |
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| For the settlements extend till they seem to have no end | D |
| Spreading silently you can't tell when or how | B |
| And a home infested land stretches out on every hand | E |
| So there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| On the six foot Mountain peak up and down the dubious creek | F |
| Where the cockatoos alone should make a row | G |
| There the rooster tears his throat to announce with homely note | H |
| That there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| Where the dingo should be seen sounds the Amy tambourine | I |
| While the hardest case surrenders with a vow | B |
| And the church bell going strong makes us feel we've lived too long | J |
| Since there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| And along the pine ridge side where the mallee hen should hide | K |
| You will see some children driving home a cow | B |
| Whilst ballooning on a line female garniture gives sign | L |
| That there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| Here in place of emu's eggs you will find surveyors' pegs | M |
| And the culvert where there ought to be a slough | N |
| There a mortise in the ground shows the digger has been round | O |
| And has left no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| And across this fenced in view like our friend the well sung Jew | P |
| Goes the swaggy with a frown upon his brow | B |
| He is cabin'd cribb'd confin'd for the thought is on his mind | Q |
| That there is no Up the Country for him now | B |
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| And the boy that bolts from home has no decent place to roam | R |
| No region with adventure to endow | B |
| But his ardent spirit cools at the sight of farms and schools | S |
| Hence there is no Up the Country for him now | B |
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| Such a settling spreading curse must infallibly grow worse | T |
| Till the saltbush disappears before the plough | B |
| But the future evil fraught is forgotten in the thought | U |
| That there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| We must do a steady shift and devote our minds to thrift | V |
| Till we reach at length the standard of the Chow | B |
| For we're crumpled side by side in a world no longer wide | K |
| And there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
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| Better we were cold and still with our famous Jim and Bill | W |
| Beneath the interdicted wattle bough | B |
| For the angels made our date five and twenty years too late | X |
| And there is no Up the Country for us now | B |
Joseph Furphy
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