Unknown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDED FGFHIJIJKJ LMNOFDFDPDOh 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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