The Squatter-s Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCD EFEF GBGB HIJI KBKB LMLM NBNB OBOB PBPB QRQR SBTB BOUO VWVW XOXO YBYB ZBA2M| OUT in the west where runs are wide | A |
| And days than ours are hotter | B |
| Not very far from Lachlan Side | A |
| There dwelt a wealthy squatter | B |
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| Of old opinions he was full | C |
| An Englishman his sire | B |
| Was hated long where peasants pull | C |
| Their forelocks to the squire | D |
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| He loved the good old British laws | E |
| And Royalty s regalia | F |
| And oft was heard to growl because | E |
| They wouldn t fit Australia | F |
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| This squatter had a lovely child | G |
| An angel bright we thought her | B |
| And all the stockmen rude and wild | G |
| Adored the squatter s daughter | B |
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| But on a bright eventful morn | H |
| A swell of northern nation | I |
| A lordling brought his languid yawn | J |
| And eyeglass to the station | I |
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| He coveted the squatter s wealth | K |
| He saw the squatter s daughter | B |
| And what is more than heart or health | K |
| His empty title bought her | B |
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| And Yes the father made her say | L |
| In spite of tears and kissing | M |
| But early on the wedding day | L |
| The station found her missing | M |
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| And madder still the squatter grew | N |
| And madder still the lover | B |
| When by and by a missing too | N |
| A stockman they discover | B |
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| Then on the squatter s brow the frown | O |
| Went blacker still and blacker | B |
| He sent a man to bring from town | O |
| A trooper and a tracker | B |
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| The dusty rascal saw the trail | P |
| He never saw it plainer | B |
| The reason why he came to fail | P |
| Will take a shrewd explainer | B |
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| A day and night the party lose | Q |
| The track the tracker parried | R |
| And then a stockman brought the news | Q |
| The runaways were married | R |
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| The squatter swore that he d forgive | S |
| Perhaps when he forgot her | B |
| But he d disown her while he d live | T |
| And while they called him squatter | B |
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| But as the empty months went o er | B |
| To ease his heart s vexation | O |
| He brought his bold young son in law | U |
| To manage stock and station | O |
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| And glad was he that he forgave | V |
| Because a something had he | W |
| To keep his gray hairs from the grave | V |
| And call him Dear Grand Daddy | W |
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| To Democratic victories | X |
| In after years he d listen | O |
| And strange to say to things like these | X |
| His aged eyes would glisten | O |
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| The lordling took another girl | Y |
| Not quite of his desire | B |
| And went to where the farmers twirl | Y |
| Their forelocks to the squire | B |
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| Now often to the station comes | Z |
| An old and wrinkled tracker | B |
| They cheer his heart with plenty rum | A2 |
| And plenty pheller bacca | M |
Henry Lawson
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