Bush Hay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGIJEJE KLMLNEIE OPQRGESE| The stamp of Scotland is on his face | A |
| But he sailed to the South a lad | B |
| And he does not think of the black bleak hills | C |
| And the bitter hard youth he had | B |
| He thinks of a nearer and dearer past | D |
| In the bright land far away | E |
| When the teams went up and the teams came down | F |
| In the days when they made bush hay | E |
| - | |
| The fare was rough and the bush was grim | G |
| In the years of his pilgrimage | H |
| But he gained the strength that is still with him | G |
| In his hale late middle age | I |
| He thinks of the girl at the halfway inn | J |
| They use as a barn to day | E |
| Oh she was a dumpling and he was thin | J |
| In the days when they made bush hay | E |
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| The ration teams to the Bathurst Plains | K |
| Were often a fortnight full | L |
| And they branched all ways in the early days | M |
| And back to the port with wool | L |
| They watched for the lights of old Cobb Co | N |
| That flashed to the West away | E |
| When drivers drove six on a twelve mile stage | I |
| In the days when they made bush hay | E |
| - | |
| He has made enough and he s sold his claim | O |
| And he goes by the morning train | P |
| From the gold field town in the sultry West | Q |
| To his home by the sea again | R |
| Where a bustling old body s expecting him | G |
| Whose hair is scarcely grey | E |
| And she was the girl of the halfway house | S |
| In the days when they made bush hay | E |
Henry Lawson
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