Before We Were Married Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| BLACKSOIL PLAINS were grey soil grey soil in the drought | A |
| Fifteen years away and five hundred miles out | A |
| Swag and bag and billy carried all our care | B |
| Before we were married and I wish that I were there | B |
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| River banks were grassy grassy in the bends | C |
| Running through the land where mateship never ends | C |
| We belled the lazy fishing lines and droned the time away | D |
| Before we were married and I wish it were to day | D |
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| Working down the telegraph winters gales and rains | E |
| Cross the tumbled scenery of Marlborough plains | E |
| Beach and bluff and cook s tent and the cook was a cow | F |
| Before we were married but I wish that it was now | F |
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| The rolling road to Melbourne and grey eyed girl in fur | G |
| One arm to a stanchion and one round her | G |
| Seat abaft the skylight when the moon had set | H |
| Before she was married and I wish it wasn t yet | H |
Henry Lawson
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