He Had So Much Work To Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FGHH IIEE JJKK LLDD MMEE NNEE OOGG PPEE| Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West | A |
| Where the soldier birds and farmers and selectors never rest | A |
| While the sun shines and they often work in rainy weather too | B |
| But it s all about a young man who had so much work to do | B |
| One of Mason s sons Jim Mason and the straightest of the lot | C |
| They were all straight for that matter Jim was working for old Scott | C |
| Scott that fired at Brummy Hughson when the stick ups used to be | D |
| Jim was courting Mary Kelly down at Lowes at Wilbertree | E |
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| Jim was trucking for a sawmill to make money for the home | F |
| He was making out of Mudgee for the family to come | G |
| And a load chain snapped the switch bar and Black Anderson found Jim | H |
| In the morning in a creek bed with a log on top of him | H |
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| There was riding for the doctor just the same old reckless race | I |
| And a spring cart with a mattress came and took him from the place | I |
| To the hospital at Gulgong but they couldn t pull him through | E |
| And Jim said It seems a pity I had so much work to do | E |
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| There s the hut it s close up finished and the forty acres fenced | J |
| And I ve cleared enough for ploughin but the dam is just commenced | J |
| Then he said and for a moment from the nurse his eyes he hid | K |
| But I m glad we wasn t married for there might have been a kid | K |
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| That was all at least it wasn t for he didn t die until | L |
| He had fixed it up for Mary with a proper lawyer will | L |
| And the Forty acre paddick And I only hope said he | D |
| That she ll get some decent feller when she s quite got over me | D |
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| Poor old broken hearted Mason and his missus took their spell | M |
| But another son and Mary finished Jim s work very well | M |
| They have grown up sons and daughters some on new selections too | E |
| And their hands and hearts are fitted for the work they have to do | E |
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| Now my brothers see the moral lest the truth should come too late | N |
| We are far too apt to quarrel with the writer s fancied fate | N |
| Damn the Past and leave to morrow millions are worse off than you | E |
| Think ere you would drown your sorrow of the work that you should do | E |
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| Though the fates have seemed unkind to our unhappy brotherhood | O |
| We are too apt to be blind to our great power to do good | O |
| Many thousands starved and stinted for a line of comfort come | G |
| We can write and have it printed They must suffer and be dumb | G |
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| Think not of the hours we wasted in oblivion foully won | P |
| Or the bitter cups we tasted Let us work that when life s done | P |
| We shall have in bush or city shaped our future course so true | E |
| That they ll say It is a pity they had so much more to do | E |
Henry Lawson
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