Knockin' Around Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF AAGGFF BBHHCC| Weary old wife with the bucket and cow | A |
| How s your son Jack and where is he now | A |
| Haggard old eyes that turn to the west | B |
| Boys will be boys and he s gone with the rest | B |
| Grief without tears and grief without sound | C |
| Somewhere up country he s knocking around | C |
| Knocking around with a vagabond crew | D |
| Does for himself what a mother would do | D |
| Maybe in trouble and maybe hard up | E |
| Maybe in want of a bite or a sup | E |
| Dead of the fever or lost in the drought | F |
| Lonely old mother he s knocking about | F |
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| Wiry old man at the tail of the plough | A |
| Heard of Jack lately and where is he now | A |
| Pauses a moment his forehead to wipe | G |
| Drops the rope reins while he feels for his pipe | G |
| Scratches his grey head in sorrow or doubt | F |
| Somewheers or others he s knocking about | F |
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| Knocking about on the runs of the West | B |
| Holding his own with the worst and the best | B |
| Breaking in horses and risking his neck | H |
| Droving or shearing and making a cheque | H |
| Straight as a sapling six foot and sound | C |
| Jack is all right when he s knocking around | C |
Henry Lawson
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