Middleton's Rouseabout

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)




Tall and freckled and sandy,
 Face of a country lout;
This was the picture of Andy,
 Middleton's Rouseabout.
 
Type of a coming nation,
 In the land of cattle and sheep,
Worked on Middleton's station,
 `Pound a week and his keep.'
 
On Middleton's wide dominions
 Plied the stockwhip and shears;
Hadn't any opinions,
 Hadn't any `idears'.
 
Swiftly the years went over,
 Liquor and drought prevailed;
Middleton went as a drover,
 After his station had failed.
 
Type of a careless nation,
 Men who are soon played out,
Middleton was: -- and his station
 Was bought by the Rouseabout.
 
Flourishing beard and sandy,
 Tall and robust and stout;
This is the picture of Andy,
 Middleton's Rouseabout.
 
Now on his own dominions
 Works with his overseers;
Hasn't any opinions,
 Hasn't any `idears'.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abaA cdcd eeee fgfg cbca abaA eeee
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 795
Words 131
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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