Morgan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII FFJKLL IIMMNN NOPPQQ RRSSBB| When Morgan crossed the Murray to Peechelba and doom | A |
| A sombre silent shadow rode with him through the gloom | A |
| The wild things of the forest slunk from the outlaw's track | B |
| The boobook croaked a warning Go back go back go back | B |
| It woke no answering echo in Morgan's blackened soul | C |
| As onward through the darkness he rode towards his goal | C |
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| An evil man was Morgan a price was on his head | D |
| The simple bush folk whispered his very name with dread | D |
| Before the fierce Dan Morgan the bravest man might quake | E |
| A cold and callous killer he killed for killing's sake | E |
| Past swamp and creek and gully and settler's lone abode | F |
| Towards the station homestead the grim Dan Morgan rode | F |
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| And still that hooded horseman that Morgan could not see | G |
| Watched by the wild bush creatures rode close beside his knee | G |
| Before them in a clearing a drover's campfire burned | H |
| The phantom rode with Morgan and turned when Morgan turned | H |
| And loud the boobook's warning came on the cold night air | I |
| Go back go back Dan Morgan Beware beware beware | I |
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| He reached the station homestead into the hall he strode | F |
| And on his evil features the flickering lamplight glowed | F |
| Into one room he thundered Bring me a glass of grog | J |
| If any disobey me I'll shoot him like a dog | K |
| With pistols cocked and ready dark eyed and beetle browed | L |
| Before the famous outlaw the bravest hearts were cowed | L |
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| All night with loaded pistols he dozed and muttered there | I |
| All night the evil shadow stood close behind his chair | I |
| The brave Scotch girl McDonald a lass who knew no fear | M |
| Slipped out unseen by Morgan to warn the homesteads near | M |
| And in the hours of darkness before the break of dawn | N |
| Around the fierce Dan Morgan the fatal net was drawn | N |
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| Day broke upon the Murray the morning mists were gone | N |
| The magpies sang their matins the river murmured on | O |
| When Morgan left the homestead and neared the stockyard gate | P |
| He heard the boobooks warning and turned but turned to late | P |
| For Quinlan pressed the trigger as Morgan swung around | Q |
| And sent the grim bushranger blaspheming to the ground | Q |
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| So fell the dread Dan Morgan in Eighteen sixty five | R |
| In death as much unpitied as hated when alive | R |
| He lived by blood and plunder an outlaw to the end | S |
| In life he showed no mercy in death he left no friend | S |
| And all who seek to follow in Morgan's evil track | B |
| Should heed the boobook's warning Go back go back go back | B |
Edward Harrington
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