Mary Lemaine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCCCDD EEFFCC GGHHCC IIJJGG CCKKCC LLGGMM| Jim Duff was a native as wild as could be | A |
| A stealer and duffer of cattle was he | A |
| But back in his youth he had stolen a pearl | B |
| Or a diamond rather the heart of a girl | B |
| She served with a squatter who lived on the plain | C |
| And the name of the girl it was Mary Lemaine | C |
| Twas a drear rainy day and the twilight was done | C |
| When four mounted troopers rode up to the run | C |
| They spoke to the squatter he asked them all in | C |
| The homestead was small and the walls they were thin | C |
| And in the next room with a cold in her head | D |
| Our Mary was sewing on buttons in bed | D |
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| She heard a few words but those words were enough | E |
| The troopers were all on the track of Jim Duff | E |
| The super his rival was planning a trap | F |
| To capture the scamp in Maginnis s Gap | F |
| I ve warned him before and I ll do it again | C |
| I ll save him to night whispered Mary Lemaine | C |
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| No petticoat job there was no time to waste | G |
| The suit she was mending she slipped on in haste | G |
| And five minutes later they gathered in force | H |
| But Mary was off on the squatter s best horse | H |
| With your hand on your heart just to deaden the pain | C |
| Ride hard to the ranges brave Mary Lemaine | C |
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| She rode by the ridges all sullen and strange | I |
| And far up long gullies that ran through the range | I |
| Till the rain cleared away and the tears in her eyes | J |
| Caught the beams of the moon from Maginnis s Rise | J |
| A fire in the depths of the gums she espied | G |
| Who s there shouted Jim It is Mary she cried | G |
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| Next morning the sun rose in splendour again | C |
| And two loving sinners rode out on the plain | C |
| And baffled and angry and hungry and damp | K |
| The four mounted troopers rode back to the camp | K |
| But they hushed up the business the reason is plain | C |
| They all had been soft on fair Mary Lemaine | C |
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| The squatter got back all he lost from his mob | L |
| And old Sergeant Kennedy winked at the job | L |
| Jim Duff keeps a shanty far out in the west | G |
| And the sundowners call it the Bushranger s Rest | G |
| But the bushranger lives a respectable life | M |
| And the law never troubles Jim Duff or his wife | M |
Henry Lawson
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