When The Bear Comes Back Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBBBCCCCC DDEEEEE FFEEEEE GGHHHHH| Oh the scene is wide an dreary an the sun is settin red | A |
| An the grey black sky of winter s comin closer overhead | A |
| Oh the sun is settin bloody with a blood line on the snow | B |
| An across it to the westward you can see old Bruin go | B |
| You can see old Shaggy go | B |
| You can see the brown Bear go | B |
| An he s draggin one leg arter an he s travellin pretty slow | B |
| We can send a long shot arter but he doesn t seem to know | B |
| There s a thin red line behind him where it s dripped across the snow | B |
| He is weary an he s wounded with his own blood he s half blind | C |
| He is licked an he s defeated an he s left some cubs behind | C |
| Yes he s left some cubs behind | C |
| Oh he s left some cubs behind | C |
| To the tune of sixty thousand he has left some cubs behind | C |
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| Oh they ve pulled him by the nose ring and they ve baited him in pits | D |
| An they bluffed him an they bruised him an they mostly gave him fits | D |
| But he hugged em badly one time when they tried him in his den | E |
| An he ll make it warm for someone when he comes back East again | E |
| When the Bear comes back again | E |
| When he s lopin round again | E |
| There ll be lively times for Jacko when the Bear comes back again | E |
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| Oh we chased him out of Turkey I don t know for what idea | F |
| It took two dogs an a lion for to beat him in Crimea | F |
| He s goin home to lick his wounds he s goin to his den | E |
| But he ll make it warm for someone when he comes South East again | E |
| When the Bear comes back again | E |
| When old Bruin comes again | E |
| He will make some dead to die on when he comes back from his den | E |
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| Keep a sharp look out behind you every way you turn my lad | G |
| It don t matter who you might be for you bet the Bear is mad | G |
| Keep a sharp look out to Nor ard to the South an West an East | H |
| For he mostly always finds you where you most expect him least | H |
| Where you most expect him leastest | H |
| Where you most expect him least | H |
| Oh you ll catch him grabbin for yer where you most expect him least | H |
Henry Lawson
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