Bonnie New South Wales Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBB DDBB AABB| It surely cannot be too soon and never is too late | A |
| It tones with all Australia s tune to praise one s native State | A |
| And so I bring an old refrain from days of posts and rails | B |
| And lift the good old words again for Sunny New South Wales | B |
| She bore me on her tented fields and wore my youth away | C |
| And little gold of all she yields repays my toil to day | C |
| By track and camp and bushman s hut by streets where courage fails | B |
| I ve sung for all Australia but my heart s in New South Wales | B |
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| The waratah and wattle there in all their glory grow | D |
| And if they bloom on hills elsewhere I m not supposed to know | D |
| The tales that other States may tell I never hear the tales | B |
| For I her son have sinned as well as Bonnie New South Wales | B |
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| I only know her heart is good to sweetheart and to mate | A |
| And pregnant with our nationhood from Sunset to the Gate | A |
| I only know her sons sail home on every ship that sails | B |
| Though round the world ten times they roam from dear old New South Wales | B |
Henry Lawson
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