The Man Who Was Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGH IIHH JJHH IIHH| The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow | A |
| She told the lawyer man her tale in tones of deepest woe | A |
| She said My husband took to drink for pains in his inside | B |
| And never drew a sober breath from then until he died | B |
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| He never drew a sober breath he died without a will | C |
| And I must sell the bit of land the childer's mouth to fill | C |
| There's some is grown and gone away but some is childer yet | D |
| And times is very bad indeed a livin's hard to get | D |
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| There's Min and Sis and little Chris they stops at home with me | E |
| And Sal has married Greenhide Bill that breaks for Bidgeree | F |
| And Fred is drovin' Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh | G |
| And Charley's shearin' down the Bland and Peter is away | H |
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| The lawyer wrote the details down in ink of legal blue | I |
| There's Minnie Susan Christopher they stop at home with you | I |
| There's Sarah Frederick and Charles I'll write to them today | H |
| But what about the other son the one who is away | H |
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| You'll have to furnish his consent to sell the bit of land | J |
| The widow shuffled in her seat Oh don't you understand | J |
| I thought a lawyer ought to know I don't know what to say | H |
| You'll have to do without him boss for Peter is away | H |
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| But here the little boy spoke up said he We thought you knew | I |
| He's done six months in Goulburn gaol he's got six more to do | I |
| Thus in one comprehensive flash he made it clear as day | H |
| The mystery of Peter's life the man who was away | H |
Banjo Paterson
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