The Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJEKE LEMENEOE PQPQRESE TUVUGWXW YWZWA2EB2E| Let others make the songs of love | A |
| For our young struggling nation | B |
| But I will sing while e er I live | C |
| The Songs of Irrigation | B |
| For while the white man shall beget | D |
| The white man s son and daughter | E |
| The two most precious things for us | F |
| Shall still be wheat and water | E |
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| We ve been drought ruined in the West | G |
| And ever in my dreaming | H |
| I see wide miles of waving crops | I |
| And sheets of water gleaming | H |
| On plains where fortune died of thirst | J |
| When my brave father sought her | E |
| I see the painted barges pass | K |
| Along the winding water | E |
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| And now the glorious scheme s afoot | L |
| Our country to deliver | E |
| From drought and death on blazing waste | M |
| By long neglected river | E |
| You ll see the boodlers of the world | N |
| Rush in from every quarter | E |
| They want the land the gold reefed sand | O |
| And now they ll want the water | E |
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| Bright intellects will plan the dykes | P |
| With little gold to gild them | Q |
| Bright intellects will plan the dykes | P |
| The people pay to build them | Q |
| And when we ve made our long canals | R |
| And lakes in every quarter | E |
| Then ours would be the guarantee | S |
| The Trust would own the water | E |
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| They d hold the bores and aqueducts | T |
| The water ways and barges | U |
| And we would live or we would starve | V |
| According to their charges | U |
| From all the Edens in the West | G |
| They d bar our sons and daughters | W |
| They d hold the land ten leagues or so | X |
| Each side the rippling waters | W |
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| But those who fight to hold their own | Y |
| The Lord and time delivers | W |
| As we have held our railway lines | Z |
| So we shall hold our rivers | W |
| We ll find the money as was found | A2 |
| The money spent in slaughter | E |
| To build our dykes and build our dams | B2 |
| And we shall own the water | E |
Henry Lawson
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