Women Of The West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FGCC HHBB IIJJ KKBB| They left the vine wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill | A |
| The houses in the busy streets where life is never still | A |
| The pleasures of the city and the friends they cherished best | B |
| For love they faced the wilderness the Women of the West | B |
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| The roar and rush and fever of the city died away | C |
| And the old time joys and faces they were gone for many a day | C |
| In their place the lurching coach wheel or the creaking bullock chains | D |
| O'er the everlasting sameness of the never ending plains | D |
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| In the slab built zinc roofed homestead of some lately taken run | E |
| In the tent beside the bankment of a railway just begun | E |
| In the huts on new selections in the camps of man's unrest | B |
| On the frontiers of the Nation live the Women of the West | B |
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| The red sun robs their beauty and in weariness and pain | F |
| The slow years steal the nameless grace that never comes again | G |
| And there are hours men cannot soothe and words men cannot say | C |
| The nearest woman's face may be a hundred miles away | C |
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| The wide bush holds the secrets of their longing and desires | H |
| When the white stars in reverence light their holy altar fires | H |
| And silence like the touch of God sinks deep into the breast | B |
| Perchance He hears and understands the Women of the West | B |
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| For them no trumpet sounds the call no poet plies his arts | I |
| They only hear the beating of their gallant loving hearts | I |
| But they have sung with silent lives the song all songs above | J |
| The holiness of sacrifice the dignity of love | J |
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| Well have we held our fathers creed No call has passed us by | K |
| We faced and fought the wilderness we sent our sons to die | K |
| And we have hearts to do and dare and yet o'er all the rest | B |
| The hearts that made the Nation were the Women of the West | B |
George Essex Evans
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