The Drover's Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHIJIJ KLKLFMFM NOPOQRQR NSNSTUTU VWVWXAXA YZWZA2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2LE2LE2

An hour before the sun goes downA
Behind the ragged boughsB
I go across the little runC
And bring the dusty cowsB
And once I used to sit and restD
Beneath the fading domeE
For there was one that I loved bestD
Who'd bring the cattle homeE
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Our yard is fixed with double bailsF
Round one the grass is greenG
The bush is growing through the railsF
The spike is rusted inH
And 'twas from there his freckled faceI
Would turn and smile at meJ
He'd milk a dozen in the raceI
While I was milking threeJ
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I milk eleven cows myselfK
Where once I milked but fourL
I set the dishes on the shelfK
And close the dairy doorL
And when the glaring sunlight failsF
And the fire shines through the cracksM
I climb the broken stockyard railsF
And watch the bridle tracksM
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He kissed me twice and once againN
And rode across the hillO
The pint pots and the hobble chainP
I hear them jingling stillO
He'll come at night or not at allQ
He left in dust and heatR
And when the soft cool shadows fallQ
Is the best time to meetR
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And he is coming back againN
He wrote to let me knowS
The floods were in the Darling thenN
It seems so long agoS
He'd come through miles of slush and mudT
And it was weary workU
The creeks were bankers and the floodT
Was forty miles round BourkeU
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He said the floods had formed a blockV
The plains could not be crossedW
And there was foot rot in the flockV
And hundreds had been lostW
The sheep were falling thick and fastX
A hundred miles from townA
And when he reached the line at lastX
He trucked the remnant downA
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And so he'll have to stand the costY
His luck was always badZ
Instead of making more he lostW
The money that he hadZ
And how he'll manage heaven knowsA2
My eyes are getting dimB2
He says he says he don't supposeA2
I'll want to marry himB2
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As if I wouldn't take his handC2
Without a golden gloveD2
Oh Jack you men won't understandC2
How much a girl can loveD2
I long to see his face once moreL
Jack's dog thank God it's JackE2
I never thought I'd faint beforeL
He's coming up the trackE2

Henry Lawson



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