Unknown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDED FGFHIJIJKJ LMNOFDFDPD| Oh the wild black swans fly westward still | A |
| While the sun goes down in glory | B |
| And away o'er lonely plain and hill | A |
| Still runs the same old story | B |
| The sheoaks sigh it all day long | C |
| It is safe in the Big Scrub's keeping | D |
| 'Tis the butcher birds' and the bell birds' song | C |
| In the gum where Unknown lies sleeping | D |
| It is heard in the chat of the soldier birds | E |
| O'er the grave where Unknown lies sleeping | D |
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| Ah the Bushmen knew not his name or land | F |
| Or the shame that had sent him here | G |
| But the Bushmen knew by the dead man' hand | F |
| That his past life lay not near | H |
| The law of the land might have watched for him | I |
| Or a sweetheart wife or mother | J |
| But they bared their heads and their eyes were dim | I |
| For he might have been a brother | J |
| Ah the death he died brought him near to them | K |
| For he might have been a brother | J |
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| Oh the wild black swans to the westward fade | L |
| And the sunset burns to ashes | M |
| And three times bright on an eastern range | N |
| The light of a big star flashes | O |
| Like a signal sent to a distant strand | F |
| Where a dead man's love sits weeping | D |
| And the night comes grand to the Great Lone Land | F |
| O'er the grave where Unknown lies sleeping | D |
| And the big white stars in their clusters blaze | P |
| O'er the Bush where Unknown lies sleeping | D |
Henry Lawson
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