Australian Scenery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCC DDD EBBBFFF GGG| The Mountains | A |
| A land of sombre silent hills where mountain cattle go | B |
| By twisted tracks on sidelings deep where giant gum trees grow | B |
| And the wind replies in the river oaks to the song of the stream below | B |
| A land where the hills keep watch and ward silent and wide awake | C |
| As those who sit by a dead campfire and wait for the dawn to break | C |
| Or those who watched by the Holy Cross for the dead Redeemer's sake | C |
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| A land where silence lies so deep that sound itself is dead | D |
| And a gaunt grey bird like a homeless soul drifts noiseless overhead | D |
| And the world's great story is left untold and the message is left unsaid | D |
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| The Plains | E |
| A land as far as the eye can see where the waving grasses grow | B |
| Or the plains are blackened and burnt and bare where the false mirages go | B |
| Like shifting symbols of hope deferred land where you never know | B |
| Land of plenty or land of want where the grey Companions dance | F |
| Feast or famine or hope or fear and in all things land of chance | F |
| Where Nature pampers or Nature slays in her ruthless red romance | F |
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| And we catch a sound of a fairy's song as the wind goes whipping by | G |
| Or a scent like incense drifts along from the herbage ripe and dry | G |
| Or the dust storms dance on their ballroom floor where the bones of the cattle lie | G |
Banjo Paterson
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