The Ballad Of The Drover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLML NOAOCLML PQRQSOCO EBTBFUCU CVAVTWX YZAZCA2YC YB2GB2C2BPD D2B2D2B2RE2TE2 F2G2SG2FFFF KDH2BI2J2FJ2

Across the stony ridgesA
Across the rolling plainB
Young Harry Dale the droverC
Comes riding home againD
And well his stock horse bears himE
And light of heart is heF
And stoutly his old pack horseG
Is trotting by his kneeF
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Up Queensland way with cattleH
He travelled regions vastI
And many months have vanishedJ
Since home folk saw him lastI
He hums a song of someoneK
He hopes to marry soonL
And hobble chains and camp wareM
Keep jingling to the tuneL
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Beyond the hazy dadoN
Against the lower skiesO
And yon blue line of rangesA
The homestead station liesO
And thitherward the droverC
Jogs through the lazy noonL
While hobble chains and camp wareM
Are jingling to a tuneL
-
An hour has filled the heavensP
With storm clouds inky blackQ
At times the lightning tricklesR
Around the drover's trackQ
But Harry pushes onwardS
His horses' strength he triesO
In hope to reach the riverC
Before the flood shall riseO
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The thunder from above himE
Goes rolling o'er the plainB
And down on thirsty pasturesT
In torrents falls the rainB
And every creek and gullyF
Sends forth its little floodU
Till the river runs a bankerC
All stained with yellow mudU
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Now Harry speaks to RoverC
The best dog on the plainsV
And to his hardy horsesA
And strokes their shaggy manesV
We've breasted bigger riversT
When floods were at their heightW
Nor shall this gutter stop usX
From getting home to night '-
-
The thunder growls a warningY
The ghastly lightnings gleamZ
As the drover turns his horsesA
To swim the fatal streamZ
But oh the flood runs strongerC
Than e'er it ran beforeA2
The saddle horse is failingY
And only half way o'erC
-
When flashes next the lightningY
The flood's grey breast is blankB2
And a cattle dog and pack horseG
Are struggling up the bankB2
But in the lonely homesteadC2
The girl will wait in vainB
He'll never pass the stationsP
In charge of stock againD
-
The faithful dog a momentD2
Sits panting on the bankB2
And then swims through the currentD2
To where his master sankB2
And round and round in circlesR
He fights with failing strengthE2
Till borne down by the watersT
The old dog sinks at lengthE2
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Across the flooded lowlandsF2
And slopes of sodden loamG2
The pack horse struggles onwardS
To take dumb tidings homeG2
And mud stained wet and wearyF
Through ranges dark goes heF
While hobble chains and tinwareF
Are sounding eerilyF
-
-
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The floods are in the oceanK
The stream is clear againD
And now a verdant carpetH2
Is stretched across the plainB
But someone's eyes are saddenedI2
And someone's heart still bleedsJ2
In sorrow for the droverF
Who sleeps among the reedsJ2

Henry Lawson



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