The Days When We Went Swimming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGHG IEBEDJDJ BEEEEBKB BBBBEBEB| The breezes waved the silver grass | A |
| Waist high along the siding | B |
| And to the creek we ne'er could pass | A |
| Three boys on bare back riding | B |
| Beneath the sheoaks in the bend | C |
| The waterhole was brimming | B |
| Do you remember yet old friend | C |
| The times we 'went in swimming' | B |
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| The days we 'played the wag' from school | D |
| Joys shared and paid for singly | E |
| The air was hot the water cool | D |
| And naked boys are kingly | E |
| With mud for soap the sun to dry | F |
| A well planned lie to stay us | G |
| And dust well rubbed on neck and face | H |
| Lest cleanliness betray us | G |
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| And you'll remember farmer Kutz | I |
| Though scarcely for his bounty | E |
| He leased a forty acre block | B |
| And thought he owned the county | E |
| A farmer of the old world school | D |
| That grew men hard and grim in | J |
| He drew his water from the pool | D |
| That we preferred to swim in | J |
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| And do you mind when down the creek | B |
| His angry way he wended | E |
| A green hide cartwhip in his hand | E |
| For our young backs intended | E |
| Three naked boys upon the sand | E |
| Half buried and half sunning | B |
| Three startled boys without their clothes | K |
| Across the paddocks running | B |
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| We've had some scares but we looked blank | B |
| When resting there and chumming | B |
| One glanced by chance upon the bank | B |
| And saw the farmer coming | B |
| And home inmpressions linger yet | E |
| Of cups of sorrow brimming | B |
| I hardly think that we'll forget | E |
| The last day we went swimming | B |
Henry Lawson
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