A Bushman's Love - A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEEFEF GDDGHIHI EJKELMLML ENENHOOHPLPL| You say we bushmen cannot love | A |
| Our lives are too prosaic hence | B |
| We lose or lack that finer sense | B |
| That raises some few men above | A |
| Their fellows setting them apart | C |
| As vessels of a finer make | D |
| The acme of the potter's art | C |
| Are placed apart upon the shelf | E |
| So he is more than common delf | E |
| And more than brute in human guise | F |
| Who seeking finds his nobler self | E |
| Twin mirrored in a woman's eyes | F |
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| Yet these things bring their penalty | G |
| For oft the merest touch will break | D |
| These vessels of a finer make | D |
| And throats attuned to noblest key | G |
| A draught of air will set awry | H |
| And stifle in an ulcerous sore | I |
| The voice that floated to the sky | H |
| And silence it for evermore | I |
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| You say we bushmen cannot love | E |
| That like our foe the fire fiend | J |
| We blaze until a river bend | K |
| Nay less a pebble graven groove | E |
| Where waters thread doth bid us stay | L |
| Our passions for a month a week | M |
| Flare out and then they die away | L |
| For separation like the creek | M |
| That stays the bush fire bars the way | L |
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| You say we bushmen cannot love | E |
| Well have it so but this I swear | N |
| That she possessed a power to move | E |
| The dullest boor to do or dare | N |
| But I as being somewhat shy | H |
| Became the target for her wit | O |
| How oft in wantonness she'd pit | O |
| The blazing lances of her eye | H |
| And keener rapier of her tongue | P |
| That carelessly made lightning play | L |
| Until to action I was stung | P |
| And like a dumb beast stood at bay | L |
Barcroft Boake
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