Bush ballads - Poems by poetic form - Australian Poetry Library - 0 views
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Corrie Bourke on 06 Aug 12The 'bush ballad' is a style of poetry that attained great popularity in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries, becoming an important emblem of Australian literary and popular culture. Generally narrating a story - often an exciting action or adventure - and frequently humorous in tone, the bush ballad almost invariably employs a straightforward rhyme structure and depicts the characters and scenery of rural Australia.