A Bush Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIDID JKJKLDLD MNMNOPOP QRQRSDSD TITICUCUShe's milking in the rain and dark | A |
As did her mother in the past | B |
The wretched shed of poles and bark | A |
Rent by the wind is leaking fast | B |
She sees the home roof black and low | C |
Where balefully the hut fire gleams | D |
And like her mother long ago | C |
She has her dreams she has her dreams | D |
The daybreak haunts the dreary scene | E |
The brooding ridge the blue grey bush | F |
The yard where all her years have been | G |
Is ankle deep in dung and slush | H |
She shivers as the hour drags on | I |
Her threadbare dress of sackcloth seems | D |
But like her mother years agone | I |
She has her dreams she has her dreams | D |
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The sullen breakfast where they cut | J |
The blackened junk The lowering face | K |
As though a crime were in the hut | J |
As though a curse was on the place | K |
The muttered question and reply | L |
The tread that shakes the rotting beams | D |
The nagging mother thin and dry | L |
God help the girl She has her dreams | D |
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Then for th separator start | M |
Most wretched hour in all her life | N |
With horse and harness dress and cart | M |
No Chinaman would give his wife | N |
Her heart is sick for light and love | O |
Her face is often fair and sweet | P |
And her intelligence above | O |
The minds of all she s like to meet | P |
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She reads by slush lamp light may be | Q |
When she has dragged her dreary round | R |
And dreams of cities by the sea | Q |
Where butter s up so much the pound | R |
Of different men from those she knows | S |
Of shining tides and broad bright streams | D |
Of theatres and city shows | S |
And her release She has her dreams | D |
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Could I gain her a little rest | T |
A little light if but for one | I |
I think that it would be the best | T |
Of any good I may have done | I |
But after all the paths we go | C |
Are not so glorious as they seem | U |
And if t will help her heart to know | C |
I ve had my dream Twas but a dream | U |
Henry Lawson
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