Watching The Crows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKCC| A bushman got lost in a scrub in the North | A |
| And all the long morning the searchers went forth | A |
| They swore at the rain that had washed out the tracks | B |
| And left not a trace for the eyes of the blacks | B |
| But trusting the signs that the blackfellow knows | C |
| A quiet old darkey stood watching the crows | C |
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| The solemn old blackman stood silently by | D |
| He stood like a statue his face to the sky | D |
| Black Billy was out of the bearings we thought | E |
| If he looked above for the bushman we sought | E |
| For we rather suspected the spirit would go | F |
| In well quite another direction you know | F |
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| Most bushmen on solemn occasions will joke | G |
| And unto Black Bill twas the super who spoke | G |
| He asked as he cocked his red nose in the air | H |
| You think it old Harrison sit down up there | H |
| I m watching the crows Where the white man lies dead | I |
| The crows will fly over the blackfellow said | I |
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| The blackfellow died and long years have gone round | J |
| Since the day when old Harrison s body was found | J |
| But still do I see in my vision at night | K |
| A faint figure come like a shadow in sight | K |
| And nearer and nearer it comes till it grows | C |
| Like the form of that blackfellow watching the crows | C |
Henry Lawson
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