The Bush Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A B C D C D E D E D D F G F H I H I J K J K G D G D E D E D| So you rode from the range where your brothers select | A |
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| Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn | B |
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| You rode slowly at first lest her heart should suspect | A |
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| That you were glad to be gone | B |
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| You had scarcely the courage to glance back at her | C |
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| By the homestead receding from view | D |
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| And you breathed with relief as you rounded the spur | C |
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| For the world was a wide world to you | D |
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| Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain | E |
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| Fond heart that is ever more true | D |
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| Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain | E |
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| She ll wait by the sliprails for you | D |
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| Ah The world is a new and a wide one to you | D |
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| But the world to your sweetheart is shut | F |
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| For a change never comes to the lonely Bush girl | G |
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| From the stockyard the bush and the hut | F |
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| And the only relief from the dullness she feels | H |
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| Is when ridges grow softened and dim | I |
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| And away in the dusk to the sliprails she steals | H |
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| To dream of past meetings with him | I |
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| Do you think where in place of bare fences dry creeks | J |
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| Clear streams and green hedges are seen | K |
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| Where the girls have the lily and rose in their cheeks | J |
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| And the grass in midsummer is green | K |
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| Do you think now and then now or then in the whirl | G |
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| Of the city while London is new | D |
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| Of the hut in the Bush and the freckled faced girl | G |
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| Who is eating her heart out for you | D |
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| Grey eyes that are sadder than sunset or rain | E |
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| Bruised heart that is ever more true | D |
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| Fond faith that is firmer for trusting in vain | E |
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| She waits by the sliprails for you | D |
Henry Lawson
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