The Black Tracker (or: Why He Lost The Track) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KGKG LMLMThere was a tracker in the force | A |
Of wondrous sight the story ran | B |
He never failed to track a horse | A |
He never failed to find his man | B |
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They brought him from a distant town | C |
Once more to gain reward and praise | D |
Nor dreamed the man he hunted down | C |
Had saved his life in bygone days | D |
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Away across the farthest run | E |
And far across the stony plain | F |
The outlaw s horse s tracks each one | E |
Unto the black man s eyes were plain | F |
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Those tracks across the ranges wide | G |
Right well he knew that he could trace | H |
And oft he turned aside to hide | G |
The tears upon his dusky face | H |
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Now was his time for he could claim | I |
Reward and praise if he prevailed | J |
Now was the time to win him fame | I |
When all the other blacks had failed | J |
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He struggled well to play his part | K |
For in the art he took a pride | G |
But ah there beat a white man s heart | K |
Beneath his old black wrinkled hide | G |
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Against that heart he struggled well | L |
But gratitude was in the black | M |
He failed and only he could tell | L |
The reason why he lost the track | M |
Henry Lawson
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