The Separated Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGFEIE AJKLFMNM AOPOANQN ARPRSTPT PUVHWXXP XYZYPMAM AA2FA2NPB2PTHE Separated Women | A |
Go lying through the land | B |
For they have plenty dresses | C |
And money too in hand | B |
They married brutes and drunkards | D |
And blackguards frightful low | E |
But why are they so eager | F |
For all the world to know | E |
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The shamed and ill used woman | A |
Who really longs to die | G |
She slaves at home in silence | H |
And hides her poor black eye | G |
She lives a life of terror | F |
Eased off at times in woe | E |
But why is she so frightened | I |
That any one might know | E |
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The Separated Woman | A |
She rushes to the court | J |
Sad shabby and pathetic | K |
Or flaunting or distraught | L |
The real wronged wife would rather | F |
Lose both eyes and her hair | M |
She swears a lie to save him | N |
When he is taken there | M |
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The Separated Woman | A |
She mostly goes the same | O |
Bag woman sham nurse pretty | P |
Or on her husband s name | O |
The real loafed on woman | A |
With courage almost grim | N |
Goes out and takes in washing | Q |
To keep the kids and him | N |
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The Separated Woman | A |
I knew her course so well | R |
The Stage then first class barmaid | P |
Then third class bar and hell | R |
And hell means all things vicious | S |
That prey upon the town | T |
She wishes her poor husband | P |
Had sometimes knocked her down | T |
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Masseur and manicurist | P |
Or anything by chance | U |
They vilify their husbands | V |
And draw the maintenance | H |
Sham artists music teachers | W |
Oh they are flinty nuts | X |
Their friends are man shaped crawlers | X |
And lower than the dust | P |
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The separated Monsters | X |
Are missing from the tale | Y |
They seem to have cleared out or | Z |
Perhaps they are in gaol | Y |
The separated husband | P |
Is heard of here and there | M |
A mild and decent citizen | A |
And mostly bowed with care | M |
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The Separated Women | A |
When upset in the track | A2 |
Are often very eager | F |
To take the Monster back | A2 |
They ve moved all hell to crush him | N |
And startled find too late | P |
The Monster s grown content with | B2 |
The separated state | P |
Henry Lawson
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