Poet Henry Lawson

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A Bush Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIDID JKJKLDLD MNMNOPOP QRQRSDSD TITICUCU

She's milking in the rain and darkA
As did her mother in the pastB
The wretched shed of poles and barkA
Rent by the wind is leaking fastB
She sees the home roof black and lowC
Where balefully the hut fire gleamsD
And like her mother long agoC
She has her dreams she has her dreamsD
The daybreak haunts the dreary sceneE
The brooding ridge the blue grey bushF
The yard where all her years have beenG
Is ankle deep in dung and slushH
She shivers as the hour drags onI
Her threadbare dress of sackcloth seemsD
But like her mother years agoneI
She has her dreams she has her dreamsD
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The sullen breakfast where they cutJ
The blackened junk The lowering faceK
As though a crime were in the hutJ
As though a curse was on the placeK
The muttered question and replyL
The tread that shakes the rotting beamsD
The nagging mother thin and dryL
God help the girl She has her dreamsD
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Then for th separator startM
Most wretched hour in all her lifeN
With horse and harness dress and cartM
No Chinaman would give his wifeN
Her heart is sick for light and loveO
Her face is often fair and sweetP
And her intelligence aboveO
The minds of all she s like to meetP
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She reads by slush lamp light may beQ
When she has dragged her dreary roundR
And dreams of cities by the seaQ
Where butter s up so much the poundR
Of different men from those she knowsS
Of shining tides and broad bright streamsD
Of theatres and city showsS
And her release She has her dreamsD
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Could I gain her a little restT
A little light if but for oneI
I think that it would be the bestT
Of any good I may have doneI
But after all the paths we goC
Are not so glorious as they seemU
And if t will help her heart to knowC
I ve had my dream Twas but a dreamU

Henry Lawson



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