The Passing Of Scotty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FBFBGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOQ RLRL| WE THROW us down on the dusty plain | A |
| When the gold has gone from the west | B |
| But we rise and tramp on the track again | C |
| For we re tired too tired to rest | B |
| Darker and denser the shadows fall | D |
| That are cramping each aching brow | E |
| Scotty the Wrinkler you ve solved it all | D |
| Give us a wrinkle now | E |
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| But no one lieth so still in death | F |
| As the rover who never could rest | B |
| And he s free of thought as he s free of breath | F |
| And his hands are crossed on his breast | B |
| You have earned your rest you brave old tramp | G |
| As I hope in the end we will | H |
| Ah me Twas a long long way to camp | G |
| Since the days when they called you Phil | H |
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| What have they done with your quaint old soul | I |
| Now they have passed you through | J |
| But we can t but think as our swags we roll | I |
| That it s right old man with you | J |
| You learned some truth in the storm and strife | K |
| Of the outcast battler s ways | L |
| And you left some light in the vagabond s life | K |
| Ere you vanished beyond the haze | L |
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| One by one in the far ahead | M |
| In the smothering haze of drought | N |
| Where hearts are loyal and hopes are dead | M |
| The forms of our mates fade out | N |
| Tis a distant goal and a weary load | O |
| But we follow the Wrinkler home | P |
| As staggering into the short straight road | O |
| From the blind branch tracks we come | Q |
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| We leave our mark and we play our part | R |
| In the nation s pregnant days | L |
| And we find a place in the Bushman s heart | R |
| Ere we vanish beyond the haze | L |
Henry Lawson
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