The Way I Treated Father [a Bush Song] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHCHC IEIEFCFC JKJLMCNC DEDECCGCI WORKED with father in the bush | A |
At splitting rails and palings | B |
He never was unkind to me | C |
Although he had his failings | B |
And now his grave is old and green | D |
And now at times I m rather | E |
Inclined to think twas very mean | D |
The way I treated father | E |
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The mother had for years been dead | F |
And Dad and I and Stumpy | G |
Were living in a little shed | F |
What bushmen call a humpy | G |
And now I think when day began | H |
And it was cold and chilly | C |
Twas mean to see a grey old man | H |
Get up and boil the billy | C |
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And though my lazy limbs were stiff | I |
And though twas winter weather | E |
And though my eyes were shut as if | I |
The lids were glued together | E |
I think twas mean to lie in bed | F |
I think that I was silly | C |
Because I growled if father said | F |
Git up and bile the billy | C |
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I didn t help the cooking much | J |
For I was always tired | K |
Twas strange that I could eat with such | J |
An appetite as I had | L |
But now I mind I never growled | M |
When father shouted Willie | C |
It s gittin on for dinnertime | N |
Go home and bile the hilly | C |
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His grave is growing old and green | D |
And things have altered rather | E |
But still I think twas mighty mean | D |
The way I treated father | E |
He left a tidy sum to me | C |
But I d give all the money | C |
To hear him say Will you get up | G |
And bile the billy Sonny | C |
Henry Lawson
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