Scots Of The Riverina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE BBFF EDDD BBGG| The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time | A |
| They were Scots of the Riverina and to run from home was a crime | A |
| The old man burned his letters the first and last he burned | B |
| And he scratched his name from the Bible when the old wife's back was turned | B |
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| A year went past and another There were calls from the firing line | C |
| They heard the boy had enlisted but the old man made no sign | C |
| His name must never be mentioned on the farm by Gundagai | D |
| They were Scots of the Riverina with ever the kirk hard by | E |
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| The boy came home on his final and the township's bonfire burned | B |
| His mother's arms were about him but the old man's back was turned | B |
| The daughters begged for pardon till the old man raised his hand | F |
| A Scot of the Riverina who was hard to understand | F |
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| The boy was killed in Flanders where the best and bravest die | E |
| There were tears at the Grahame homestead and grief in Gundagai | D |
| But the old man ploughed at daybreak and the old man ploughed till the mirk | D |
| There were furrows of pain in the orchard while his housefolk went to the kirk | D |
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| The hurricane lamp in the rafters dimly and dimly burned | B |
| And the old man died at the table when the old wife's back was turned | B |
| Face down on his bare arms folded he sank with his wild grey hair | G |
| Outspread o'er the open Bible and a name re written there | G |
Henry Lawson
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