Old Man Platypus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EBEEB FBFFB GHGGHFar from the trouble and toil of town | A |
Where the reed beds sweep and shiver | B |
Look at a fragment of velvet brown | A |
Old Man Platypus drifting down | A |
Drifting along the river | B |
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And he plays and dives in the river bends | C |
In a style that is most elusive | D |
With few relations and fewer friends | C |
For Old Man Platypus descends | C |
From a family most exclusive | D |
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He shares his burrow beneath the bank | E |
With his wife and his son and daughter | B |
At the roots of the reeds and the grasses rank | E |
And the bubbles show where our hero sank | E |
To its entrance under water | B |
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Safe in their burrow below the falls | F |
They live in a world of wonder | B |
Where no one visits and no one calls | F |
They sleep like little brown billiard balls | F |
With their beaks tucked neatly under | B |
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And he talks in a deep unfriendly growl | G |
As he goes on his journey lonely | H |
For he's no relation to fish nor fowl | G |
Nor to bird nor beast nor to horned owl | G |
In fact he's the one and only | H |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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