The Drover's Sweetheart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHIJIJ KLKLFMFM NOPOQRQR NSNSTUTU VWVWXAXA YZWZA2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2LE2LE2An hour before the sun goes down | A |
Behind the ragged boughs | B |
I go across the little run | C |
And bring the dusty cows | B |
And once I used to sit and rest | D |
Beneath the fading dome | E |
For there was one that I loved best | D |
Who'd bring the cattle home | E |
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Our yard is fixed with double bails | F |
Round one the grass is green | G |
The bush is growing through the rails | F |
The spike is rusted in | H |
And 'twas from there his freckled face | I |
Would turn and smile at me | J |
He'd milk a dozen in the race | I |
While I was milking three | J |
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I milk eleven cows myself | K |
Where once I milked but four | L |
I set the dishes on the shelf | K |
And close the dairy door | L |
And when the glaring sunlight fails | F |
And the fire shines through the cracks | M |
I climb the broken stockyard rails | F |
And watch the bridle tracks | M |
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He kissed me twice and once again | N |
And rode across the hill | O |
The pint pots and the hobble chain | P |
I hear them jingling still | O |
He'll come at night or not at all | Q |
He left in dust and heat | R |
And when the soft cool shadows fall | Q |
Is the best time to meet | R |
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And he is coming back again | N |
He wrote to let me know | S |
The floods were in the Darling then | N |
It seems so long ago | S |
He'd come through miles of slush and mud | T |
And it was weary work | U |
The creeks were bankers and the flood | T |
Was forty miles round Bourke | U |
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He said the floods had formed a block | V |
The plains could not be crossed | W |
And there was foot rot in the flock | V |
And hundreds had been lost | W |
The sheep were falling thick and fast | X |
A hundred miles from town | A |
And when he reached the line at last | X |
He trucked the remnant down | A |
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And so he'll have to stand the cost | Y |
His luck was always bad | Z |
Instead of making more he lost | W |
The money that he had | Z |
And how he'll manage heaven knows | A2 |
My eyes are getting dim | B2 |
He says he says he don't suppose | A2 |
I'll want to marry him | B2 |
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As if I wouldn't take his hand | C2 |
Without a golden glove | D2 |
Oh Jack you men won't understand | C2 |
How much a girl can love | D2 |
I long to see his face once more | L |
Jack's dog thank God it's Jack | E2 |
I never thought I'd faint before | L |
He's coming up the track | E2 |
Henry Lawson
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