Beaten Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIEI JAJA GKGK| BEATEN back in sad dejection | A |
| After years of weary toil | B |
| On that burning hot selection | A |
| Where the drought has gorged his spoil | B |
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| All in vain gainst him the vulture | C |
| I have battled without rest | D |
| In the van of agriculture | C |
| Marching out into the West | D |
| - | |
| Now the eagle hawks are feeding | E |
| On my perished stock that reek | F |
| Where the water holes receding | E |
| Long had left the burning creek | F |
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| I must labour without pity | G |
| I the pick and spade must wield | H |
| In the streetways of the city | G |
| Or upon another s field | H |
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| Can it be my reason s rocking | E |
| For I feel a burning hate | I |
| For the God who only mocking | E |
| Sent the prayed for rain too late | I |
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| Pour ye mocking rains and rattle | J |
| On the bare brown grassless plain | A |
| On the shrivelled hides of cattle | J |
| That shall ne er want grass again | A |
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| Rush ye yellow floods to Murray | G |
| Over thirsty creek banks foam | K |
| And o er all ye black clouds hurry | G |
| Ye can bring not back my home | K |
Henry Lawson
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