The Lights Of Cobb & Co. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A B B C D E E F F G G H H E E I I J J K K E E L L M M N N E E O O P P D D E E Q Q R R S S E E| Fire lighted on the table a meal for sleepy men | A |
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| A lantern in the stable a jingle now and then | A |
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| The mail coach looming darkly by light on moon and star | B |
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| The growl of sleepy voices a candle in the bar | B |
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| A stumble in the passage of folk with wits abroad | C |
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| A swear word from a bedroom the shout of All aboard | D |
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| Tekh tehk Git up Hold fast there and down the range we go | E |
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| Five hundred miles of scattered camps will watch for Cobb and Co | E |
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| Old coaching towns already decaying for their sins | F |
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| Uncounted Half way Houses and scores of Ten Mile Inns | F |
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| The riders from the stations by lonely granite peaks | G |
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| The black boy for the shepherds on sheep and cattle creeks | G |
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| The roaring camps of Gulgong and many a Digger s Rest | H |
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| The diggers on the Lachlan the huts of Farthest West | H |
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| Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal or woe | E |
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| The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and Co | E |
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| The morning star has vanished the frost and fog are gone | I |
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| In one of those grand mornings which but on mountains dawn | I |
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| A flask of friendly whisky each other s hopes we share | J |
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| And throw our top coats open to drink the mountain air | J |
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| The roads are rare to travel and life seems all complete | K |
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| The grind of wheels on gravel the trop of horses feet | K |
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| The trot trot trot and canter as down the spur we go | E |
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| The green sweeps to horizons blue that call for Cobb and Co | E |
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| We take a bright girl actress through western dust and damps | L |
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| To bear the home world message and sing for sinful camps | L |
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| To stir our hearts and break them wind hearts that hope and ache | M |
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| Ah When she thinks again of these her own must nearly break | M |
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| Five miles this side of the gold field a loud triumphant shout | N |
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| Five hundred cheering diggers have snatched the horses out | N |
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| With Auld Lang Syne in chorus through roaring camp they go | E |
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| That cheer for her and cheer for Home and cheer for Cobb and Co | E |
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| Three lamps above the ridges and gorges dark and deep | O |
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| A flash on sandstone cuttings where sheer the sidlings sweep | O |
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| A flash on shrouded wagons on water ghastly white | P |
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| Weird brush and scattered remnants of rushes in the night | P |
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| Across the swollen river a flash beyond the ford | D |
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| Ride hard to warn the driver He s drunk or mad good Lord | D |
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| But on the bank to westward a broad and cheerful glow | E |
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| New camps extend across the plains new routes for Cobb and Co | E |
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| Swift scramble up the sidling where teams climb inch by inch | Q |
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| Pause bird like on the summit then breakneck down the pinch | Q |
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| By clear ridge country rivers and gaps where tracks run high | R |
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| Where waits the lonely horseman cut clear against the sky | R |
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| Past haunted half way houses where convicts made the bricks | S |
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| Scrub yards and new bark shanties we dash with five and six | S |
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| Through stringy bark and blue gum and box and pine we go | E |
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| A hundred miles shall see to night the lights of Cobb and Co | E |
Henry Lawson
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