Out On The Roofs Of Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGHEDED IJKJLDLD MEMENDND EFEF| SING us a song in this cynical age | A |
| Sing us a song my friend | B |
| While the Flesh and the Devil are all the rage | A |
| And Death seems the only end | B |
| Give it the clatter of hoof clipped bones | C |
| And a note like a dingo s yell | D |
| And the long low sigh when the big mob moans | C |
| Out on the roofs of hell | D |
| - | |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides and Co | E |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides | F |
| Over the roofs of hell we go | E |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides | F |
| - | |
| We take the route or we take the track | G |
| Hell doomed by the greed of man | H |
| And we leave our wives in the scrubs out back | G |
| To struggle as best they can | H |
| For the credit is short and the flour is low | E |
| And this is the tale we tell | D |
| A check must be made and the stock must go | E |
| Over the roofs of hell | D |
| - | |
| Wake ere the burst of the great white sun | I |
| Into the blazing skies | J |
| Our limbs are stiff and the lids are gummed | K |
| Over our blighted eyes | J |
| But our souls have perished in dust and heat | L |
| And this is the tale we tell | D |
| Our lives are ever a grim retreat | L |
| With Death on the roofs of hell | D |
| - | |
| They drivel and say how the bushman drinks | M |
| But what do the townsfolk know | E |
| The life is a hell to the man who thinks | M |
| He must drink or his reason go | E |
| Drink and drink as the bushman knows | N |
| Till he strip to the skin and yell | D |
| Down for a change for a rest he goes | N |
| Down through the roofs of hell | D |
| - | |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides and Co | E |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides | F |
| Down through the roofs of hell they go | E |
| For Wool Tallow and Hides | F |
Henry Lawson
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