Grey Wolves Grey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDBB EEBBBB FFFBB GHIIBB JJJJBBKKB| The Russian march is soft and slow | A |
| Through dust and heat or slush and snow | A |
| When the Russian skies hang grey and low | A |
| To the frontiers far where the Russians go | A |
| And they march to night and they march to day | B |
| Like the grey wolves grey like the grey wolves grey | B |
| Nor song nor sound their track reveals | C |
| Save the ceaseless clock of the waggon wheels | C |
| But a rift in the mist shows a glint of sun | D |
| On the long dark shape of a toiling gun | D |
| And they strain by night and they drag by day | B |
| To a distant goal like the grey wolves grey | B |
| - | |
| As the horses toil at the ends of trains | E |
| And the ends of roads on the Blacksoil Plains | E |
| And Ivan digs in the frozen clay | B |
| And he rolls the logs a bed to lay | B |
| For a gun that s five hundred miles away | B |
| But as sure to come as the grey wolves grey | B |
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| He is marching on with a purpose grand | F |
| For brother Slav in another land | F |
| Whose tongue perchance he cannot understand | F |
| But he knows the cry from the far away | B |
| And he smells the blood like the grey wolves grey | B |
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| And Ivan s wife in her den at home | G |
| While hunger looms and his lean wolves come | H |
| With her grey black bread like the Darling mud | I |
| And her tea bricks bound with the bullock s blood | I |
| She shields her cubs by night and day | B |
| Like the crouching sluts of the grey wolves grey | B |
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| And I march with Ivan where er he be | J |
| With the foreign blood that is strong in me | J |
| And the love and the hate that is fantasy | J |
| Like the ghosts of a father s memory | J |
| With the blood that is strange to us to day | B |
| As the strange wild blood of the grey wolves grey | B |
| Grey wolves | K |
| Grey wolves | K |
| The strange wild blood of the grey wolves grey | B |
Henry Lawson
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