Editing Clancy of the Overflow (section)

{{Short description|Poem written by Andrew Barton Paterson}}
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{{Infobox poem
|name                = Clancy of the Overflow

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|author              = [[Banjo Paterson]]
|written             = 1889
|first               = ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]''
|country             = Australia
|language            = English
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|form                = [[Quatrain]]
|meter               = [[Trochaic octameter]]
|rhyme               = AA–B–CC–B
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|publication_date    = 21 December 1889
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|lines               = 32
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|wikisource          = Clancy of the Overflow
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"'''Clancy of the Overflow'''" is a famous Australian poem written by [[Banjo Paterson]] and first published in ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'', an Australian news magazine, on 21 December [[1889 in poetry|1889]].<ref name="Bulletin">{{cite web |last=Paterson |first=Banjo |date=21 December 1889 |title="Clancy of the Overflow" |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-488931510 |access-date=13 May 2024 |publisher=The Bulletin |page=17}}</ref> 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 [[stanza]]s of four lines, lines one and three in a two-[[Foot (prosody)|feet]] [[anapaest]] with a [[feminine rhyme|feminine]] [[internal rhyme]], and lines two and four in [[trochaic octameter]] with [[masculine rhyme]]s: AA–B–CC–B.