Mount Bukaroo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBBC ADADEBEC FGFGHBHC CIC JBJC BBBBCBCC KCKCCCCC FBFBFCFC| Only one old post is standing | A |
| Solid yet but only one | B |
| Where the milking and the branding | A |
| And the slaughtering were done | B |
| Later years have brought dejection | B |
| Care and sorrow but we knew | B |
| Happy days on that selection | B |
| Underneath old Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| Then the light of day commencing | A |
| Found us at the gully's head | D |
| Splitting timber for the fencing | A |
| Stripping bark to roof the shed | D |
| Hands and hearts the labour strengthened | E |
| Weariness we never knew | B |
| Even when the shadows lengthened | E |
| Round the base of Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| There for days below the paddock | F |
| How the wilderness would yield | G |
| To the spade and pick and mattock | F |
| While we toiled to win the field | G |
| Bronzed hands we used to sully | H |
| Till they were of darkest hue | B |
| Burning off' down in the gully | H |
| At the back of Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| When we came the baby brother | C |
| Left in haste his broken toys | I |
| Shouted to the busy mother | C |
| Here is dadda and the boys ' | - |
| Strange it seems that she was able | J |
| For the work that she would do | B |
| How she'd bustle round the table | J |
| In the hut 'neath Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| When the cows were safely yarded | B |
| And the calves were in the pen | B |
| All the cares of day discarded | B |
| Closed we round the hut fire then | B |
| Rang the roof with boyish laughter | C |
| While the flames o'er topped the flue | B |
| Happy days remembered after | C |
| Far away from Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| But the years were full of changes | K |
| And a sorrow found us there | C |
| For our home amid the ranges | K |
| Was not safe from searching Care | C |
| On he came a silent creeper | C |
| And another mountain threw | C |
| O'er our lives a shadow deeper | C |
| Than the shade of Bukaroo | C |
| - | |
| All the farm is disappearing | F |
| For the home has vanished now | B |
| Mountain scrub has choked the clearing | F |
| Hid the furrows of the plough | B |
| Nearer still the scrub is creeping | F |
| Where the little garden grew | C |
| And the old folks now are sleeping | F |
| At the foot of Bukaroo | C |
Henry Lawson
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