Poet Henry Lawson

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Bush Hay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGIJEJE KLMLNEIE OPQRGESE

The stamp of Scotland is on his faceA
But he sailed to the South a ladB
And he does not think of the black bleak hillsC
And the bitter hard youth he hadB
He thinks of a nearer and dearer pastD
In the bright land far awayE
When the teams went up and the teams came downF
In the days when they made bush hayE
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The fare was rough and the bush was grimG
In the years of his pilgrimageH
But he gained the strength that is still with himG
In his hale late middle ageI
He thinks of the girl at the halfway innJ
They use as a barn to dayE
Oh she was a dumpling and he was thinJ
In the days when they made bush hayE
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The ration teams to the Bathurst PlainsK
Were often a fortnight fullL
And they branched all ways in the early daysM
And back to the port with woolL
They watched for the lights of old Cobb CoN
That flashed to the West awayE
When drivers drove six on a twelve mile stageI
In the days when they made bush hayE
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He has made enough and he s sold his claimO
And he goes by the morning trainP
From the gold field town in the sultry WestQ
To his home by the sea againR
Where a bustling old body s expecting himG
Whose hair is scarcely greyE
And she was the girl of the halfway houseS
In the days when they made bush hayE

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