Well, 'bush ballad', you would expect for starters, use of Australia's adaptation of the fourteener.
So:
There was movement at the station for the word had passed around
That the colt from Old Regret had got away
And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound
Also some sort of larrikin triumphing against the odds, particularly well-bred odds.
Geoff Page says it better than I ever could.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=P_GQWZfHyuAC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Australian+poetry+the+fourteener&source=bl&ots=VclZFUhjAW&sig=JAnZxORL8z4MhKsQIL70X5FJf0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Yn2-UuvUG8OCiQfClICIDQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwCA
Cheers,
Bill
> On 28 Dec 2013, at 5:03 pm, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> now say please Bill what 'bush ballad' means to you…
>
>> On 28/12/2013, at 3:01 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> Plenty of bush around Melbourne anyway, Pat. We live in Cottles Bridge, 35 odd ks north of Melbourne, on 6.5
>> acres, 5 acres of which is uncleared bush - mainly box, stringybark, messmate, wattle.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27th, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Is there much bush in Melbourne :-)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 26 December 2013 21:06
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Diamonds
>>>
>>> Not their youth so much as their continuing daily existence, Doug.
>>>
>>> Welcome back,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>>> On 27 Dec 2013, at 5:52 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> A kind of bush ballad for your parents.Bill? Back to their youth?
>>>>
>>>> Doug
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