The Lady Of The Motor Car Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCD AAEE FFDD DDGH IIJJ KKCLD| The Lady of the Motor car she stareth straight ahead | A |
| Her face is like the stone my friend her face is like the dead | A |
| Her face is like the stone my friend because she is well bred | A |
| Because her heart is dead my friend as all her life was dead | A |
| The Lady of the Motor car she speaketh like a man | B |
| Because her girlhood never was nor womanhood began | B |
| She says To the Aus traliah John and Home when she hath been | C |
| And to the husband at her side she says Whhat doo you mean | D |
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| The Lady of the Motor car her very soul is dead | A |
| Because she never helped herself nor had to work for bread | A |
| The Lady of the Motor car sits in her sitting room | E |
| Her stony face has never changed though all the land is gloom | E |
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| Her motor car hath gone to hell the hell that man hath made | F |
| She sitteth in her sitting room and she is not afraid | F |
| Nor fear of life or death or worse could change her well bred mien | D |
| She knits socks in a stony way and says Whhat doo they mean | D |
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| The lady in her carriage sits with cushions turning green | D |
| And once it was a mourning coach and once it held a queen | D |
| Behind a coachman and a horse too old to go to war | G |
| She driveth to her four o clocks and to her sick and poor | H |
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| And when the enemy bombards and walls begin to fall | I |
| The Lady of the Motor car shall stand above you all | I |
| Amongst the strong and silent brave and those who pray or shriek | J |
| She ll nurse the wounded from the grave and pacify the weak | J |
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| And if the enemy prevails with death on every side | K |
| The Lady of the Car shall die as heroines have died | K |
| But if the victory remains she ll be what she hath been | C |
| And sitting in her motor car shall say | L |
| Whhat doo you mean | D |
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Henry Lawson
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