For All The Land To See: A Song Of The Tools Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFDD GGHHDDTHE CROSS CUT and the crowbar cross and hang them on the wall | A |
And make a greenhide rack to fit the wedges and the maul | A |
The done long handled shovel and the thong bound axe that fell | B |
The crowbar pick axe and the throw the axe that morticed well | B |
The old patched tent and fly bag bunk and pillow of sugee | C |
The frying pan and billy can for all the land to see | D |
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The cross cut after pounds of files is narrowed down and thin | E |
With here and there a tooth cut out as th curve straightened in | E |
The axe close to the iron ground the shovel to the shaft | F |
The handle from the first worn smooth with sweat and dust and graft | F |
The maul and wedges burred and split spell bravest history | D |
These were the arms our fathers bore for none but they to see | D |
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Then look you round on all that is on cities proud and fair | G |
And look you westward from the range towns farms and homesteads there | G |
Then hurry to a place you know lest you should be too late | H |
And clear the scrub some little space small place say three by eight | H |
A blackened post stump stands where four rough panels used to be | D |
And there take off your panama where none but God might see | D |
Henry Lawson
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