When The Children Come Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDE FFG HBI JJII KKL| On a lonely selection far out in the West | A |
| An old woman works all the day without rest | A |
| And she croons as she toils 'neath the sky's glassy dome | B |
| Sure I'll keep the ould place till the childer come home ' | C |
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| She mends all the fences she grubs and she ploughs | D |
| She drives the old horse and she milks all the cows | D |
| And she sings to herself as she thatches the stack | E |
| Sure I'll keep the ould place till the childer come back ' | - |
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| It is five weary years since her old husband died | F |
| And oft as he lay on his deathbed he sighed | F |
| Sure one man can bring up ten children he can | G |
| An' it's strange that ten sons cannot keep one old man ' | - |
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| Whenever the scowling old sundowners come | H |
| And cunningly ask if the master's at home | B |
| Be off ' she replies with your blarney and cant | I |
| Or I'll call my son Andy he's workin' beyant ' | - |
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| Git out ' she replies though she trembles with fear | J |
| For she lives all alone and no neighbours are near | J |
| But she says to herself when she's like to despond | I |
| That the boys are at work in the paddock beyond | I |
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| Ah none of her children need follow the plough | K |
| And some have grown rich in the city ere now | K |
| Yet she says They might come when the shearing is done | L |
| And I'll keep the ould place if it's only for one ' | - |
Henry Lawson
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