The First Dingo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CEFECGCG CHCHCCCC| The kangaroo was formed to run | A |
| but not from man alone | B |
| it ran before the horse or gun | A |
| or native dog was known | B |
| It ran when drought left waterholes | C |
| three hundred miles between | D |
| from great floods and greater fires | C |
| than we have ever seen | D |
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| The blacks beside the coastal springs | C |
| where mountain sides are steep | E |
| they bred and kept their kangaroo | F |
| much tamer than are sheep | E |
| And when the men fought inland tribes | C |
| or when they roamed at large | G |
| they drove their flocks down to the sea | C |
| and left the gins in charge | G |
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| And so alert with startled eyes | C |
| the shepherdess in fear | H |
| perceives with wonder and surprise | C |
| some foreign beats appear | H |
| She watches creeping through the trees | C |
| and round the blackened logs | C |
| the strangest sight by southern seas | C |
| the stranded Dutchmans's dogs | C |
Henry Lawson
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