Johnson, Alias Crow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEDDFFDDGGGGEC HGG| Where the seasons are divided and the bush begins to change | A |
| and the links are rather broken in the Great Dividing Range | A |
| where the atmosphere is hazy underneath the summer sky | B |
| lies the little town of Eton rather westward of Mackay | C |
| Near the township in the graveyard where the dead of Eton go | D |
| lies the body of a sinner known as Johnson alias Crow | D |
| He was sixty four was Johnson and in other days lang syne | E |
| was apprenticed to a ship wright in the land across the Rhine | E |
| but whatever were his prospects in the days of long ago | D |
| things went very bad with Johnson Heinrich Johnson alias Crow | D |
| He at Eton where he drifted in his age a stranded wreck | F |
| got three pounds by false pretences in connection with a cheque | F |
| But he didn t long enjoy it the police soon got to know | D |
| and the lockup closed on Johnson lonely Johnson alias Crow | D |
| Friday night and Crow retired feeling as he said unwell | G |
| and the warder heard the falling of a body in the cell | G |
| Going in the warder saw him bent with pain and crouching low | G |
| Death had laid his hand on Johnson Heinrich Johnson alias Crow | G |
| Then the constable bent o er him asked him where he felt the pain Johnson only said I m dying and he never spoke again | E |
| They had waited for a witness and the local people say | C |
| Johnson s trial would have ended on that very Saturday | H |
| but he took his case for judgment where our cases all must go | G |
| and the higher court is trying Heinrich Johnson alias Crow | G |
Henry Lawson
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