Poet Henry Lawson

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But What's The Use Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJJKJ LMKMJNON JJPJQLJL JRSRLMLM ABJBJEFE

But what s the use of writing bushA
Though editors demand itB
For city folk and farming folkC
Can never understand itB
They re blind to what the bushman seesD
The best with eyes shut tightestE
Out where the sun is hottest andF
The stars are most and brightestE
The crows at sunrise flopping roundG
Where some poor life has run downH
The pair of emus trotting fromI
The lonely tank at sundownH
Their snaky heads well up and eyesJ
Well out for man s manoeuvresJ
And feathers bobbing round behindK
Like fringes round improversJ
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The swagman tramping cross the plainL
Good Lord there s nothing sadderM
Except the dog that slopes behindK
His master like a shadderM
The turkey tail to scare the fliesJ
The water bag and billyN
The nose bag getting cruel lightO
The traveller getting sillyN
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The plain that seems to JackaroosJ
Like gently sloping risesJ
The shrubs and tufts that s miles awayP
But magnified in sizesJ
The track that seems arisen upQ
Or else seems gently slopinL
And just a hint of kangaroosJ
Way out across the openL
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The joy and hope the swagman feelsJ
Returning after shearingR
Or after six months tramp Out BackS
He strikes the final clearingR
His weary spirit breathes againL
His aching legs seem limberM
When to the East across the plainL
He spots the Darling TimberM
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But what s the use of writing bushA
Though editors demand itB
For city folk and cockatoosJ
They do not understand itB
They re blind to what the whaler seesJ
The best with eyes shut tightestE
Out where Australia s widest andF
The stars are most and brightestE

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