To A Dead Mate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOAPA| There's many a man who rides today | A |
| In the lonely far out back | B |
| There's many a man who makes his way | A |
| On a dusty bushland track | B |
| There's many a man in bush and town | C |
| Who mourns for a good mate gone | D |
| There are eyes grown sad and heads cast down | C |
| Since Henry has passed on | E |
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| A mate he was and a mate to love | F |
| For mateship was his creed | G |
| With a strong true heart and a soul above | F |
| This sad world's sordid greed | G |
| He lived as a mate and wrote as a mate | H |
| Of the things which he believed | I |
| Now many a good man mourns his fate | H |
| And he leaves a nation grieved | I |
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| True champion he of the lame and halt | J |
| True knight of the poor was he | K |
| Who could e'er excuse a brother's fault | J |
| With a ready sympathy | K |
| He suffered much and much he toiled | L |
| With his hand e'er for the right | M |
| And he dreamed and planned while the billy boiled | L |
| In the bushland camp at night | M |
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| Joe Wilson and his mates are sad | N |
| And the tears of bushwives fall | O |
| For the kindly heart that Henry had | N |
| Had made him loved of all | O |
| There's many a man who rides today | A |
| Cast down and sore oppressed | P |
| And thro' the land I hear them say | A |
| 'Pass Henry to your rest ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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