The Black Tracker (or: Why He Lost The Track) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KGKG LMLM| There 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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