Clancy of the Overflow
| Clancy of the Overflow | |
|---|---|
| by Banjo Paterson | |
| Written | 1889 |
| First published in | The Bulletin |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Form | Quatrain |
| Meter | Trochaic octameter |
| Rhyme scheme | AA–B–CC–B |
| Publication date | 21 December 1889 |
| Lines | 32 |
| Full text | |
| Clancy of the Overflow at Wikisource | |
"Clancy of the Overflow" is a famous Australian poem written by Banjo Paterson and first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.
The poem is written in eight stanzas of four lines, lines one and three in a two-feet anapaest with a feminine internal rhyme, and lines two and four in trochaic octameter with masculine rhymes: AA–B–CC–B.