Aboriginal Death Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFG HIHI JKJK BLBM NONO PLPL QRQR STUT| Feet of the flying and fierce | A |
| Tops of the sharp headed spear | B |
| Hard by the thickets that pierce | A |
| Lo they are nimble and near | B |
| Women are we and the wives | C |
| Strong Arrawatta hath won | D |
| Weary because of our lives | E |
| Sick of the face of the sun | D |
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| Koola our love and our light | F |
| What have they done unto you | G |
| Man of the star reaching sight | F |
| Dipped in the fire and the dew | G |
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| Black headed snakes in the grass | H |
| Struck at the fleet footed lord | I |
| Still is his voice at the pass | H |
| Soundless his step at the ford | I |
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| Far by the forested glen | J |
| Starkly he lies in the rain | K |
| Kings of the council of men | J |
| Shout for their leader in vain | K |
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| Yea and the fish river clear | B |
| Never shall blacken below | L |
| Spear and the shadow of spear | B |
| Bow and the shadow of bow | M |
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| Hunter and climber of trees | N |
| Now doth his tomahawk rust | O |
| Dread of the cunning wild bees | N |
| Hidden in hillocks of dust | O |
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| We who were followed and bound | P |
| Dashed under foot by the foe | L |
| Sit with our eyes to the ground | P |
| Faint from the brand and the blow | L |
| - | |
| Dumb with the sorrow that kills | Q |
| Sorrow for brother and chief | R |
| Terror of thundering hills | Q |
| Having no hope in our grief | R |
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| Seeing the fathers are far | S |
| Seeking the spoils of the dead | T |
| Left on the path of the war | U |
| Matted and mangled and red | T |
Henry Kendall
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