Legend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBABECA FGHDGFGHF IDJKDIDI JLMFLJLMJ NJDJNJON| The blacksmith's boy went out with a rifle | A |
| and a black dog running behind | B |
| Cobwebs snatched at his feet | C |
| rivers hindered him | D |
| thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind | B |
| and the sky turned into an unlucky opal | A |
| but he didn't mind | B |
| I can break branches I can swim rivers I can stare out | E |
| any spider I meet | C |
| said he to his dog and his rifle | A |
| - | |
| The blacksmith's boy went over the paddocks | F |
| with his old black hat on his head | G |
| Mountains jumped in his way | H |
| rocks rolled down on him | D |
| and the old crow cried You'll soon be dead | G |
| And the rain came down like mattocks | F |
| But he only said | G |
| I can climb mountains I can dodge rocks I can shoot an old crow any day | H |
| and he went on over the paddocks | F |
| - | |
| When he came to the end of the day the sun began falling | I |
| Up came the night ready to swallow him | D |
| like the barrel of a gun | J |
| like an old black hat | K |
| like a black dog hungry to follow him | D |
| Then the pigeon the magpie and the dove began wailing | I |
| and the grass lay down to pillow him | D |
| His rifle broke his hat blew away and his dog was gone and the sun was falling | I |
| - | |
| But in front of the night the rainbow stood on the mountain | J |
| just as his heart foretold | L |
| He ran like a hare | M |
| he climbed like a fox | F |
| he caught it in his hands the colours and the cold | L |
| like a bar of ice like the column of a fountain | J |
| like a ring of gold | L |
| The pigeon the magpie and the dove flew up to stare | M |
| and the grass stood up again on the mountain | J |
| - | |
| The blacksmith's boy hung the rainbow on his shoulder | N |
| instead of his broken gun | J |
| Lizards ran out to see snakes made way for him | D |
| and the rainbow shone as brightly as the sun | J |
| All the world said Nobody is braver nobody is bolder | N |
| nobody else has done | J |
| anything equal to it He went home as easy as could be | O |
| with the swinging rainbow on his shoulder | N |
Judith Wright
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