The Ballad Of The Black-sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDD DD EFEFDD DD GCGCHH ICICJJ KK| A | |
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| A black sheep from England who worked on the run | B |
| Riding where the stockmen ride | C |
| He sat by the hut when the day s work was done | B |
| Lone huts where the black sheep bide | C |
| I m tired of my life to his lone self said he | D |
| My girl and my country are both done with me | D |
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| I m tired of my life to the wide scrubs said he | D |
| My girl and my country are long done with me | D |
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| He took from a packet a portrait and curl | E |
| Such things as the exiles keep | F |
| And sadly he gazed at the face of the girl | E |
| Lost girl of a lost black sheep | F |
| I ll go where there s fighting and die there said he | D |
| My girl and my country are well rid of me | D |
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| I ll go where there s fighting and die there said he | D |
| For heart break and country that s well rid of me | D |
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| He rode with a thousand he rode with the best | G |
| Riding as bushmen ride | C |
| Who d ridden alone on the wastes of the West | G |
| Wide wastes where the drought fiends bide | C |
| They rode as they d ride to an up country ball | H |
| And the laugh of the black sheep was lightest of all | H |
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| The road was a shambles the hill was a hell | I |
| Red rosed where the reckless ride | C |
| And he with the foremost lay torn by a shell | I |
| Die hard where your father died | C |
| the death of a rebel he laughed as he groaned | J |
| for the land that adoptee the land that disowned | J |
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| the death of a black sheep they laugh as they groan | K |
| for the lands that adopt and the lands that disown | K |
Henry Lawson
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