The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #174303 Message #4228168
Posted By: Helen
06-Sep-25 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: How many verses before losing interest?
Subject: RE: How many verses before losing interest?
One of the important points about Oz bush poetry is that two of our best poets, Henry Lawson and Andrew "Banjo" Paterson were excellent story tellers. Their poems were designed to maintain interest to the end, and then a lot of them were put to music and became well-known songs.