Banjo Paterson

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Buffalo Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDEDEBBE FGFGHHG IJIJKKL BKBKMMK

Out where the grey streams glideA
Sullen and deep and slowB
And the alligators slideA
From the mud to the depths belowB
Or drift on the stream like a floating deathC
Where the fever comes on the south wind's breathC
There is the buffaloB
Out of the big lagoonsD
Where the Regia lilies floatE
And the Nankin heron croonsD
With a deep ill omened noteE
In the ooze and the mud of the swamps belowB
Lazily wallows the buffaloB
Buried to nose and throatE
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From the hunter's gun he hidesF
In the jungle's dark and dampG
Where the slinking dingo glidesF
And the flying foxes campG
Hanging like myriad fiends in lineH
Where the trailing creepers twist and twineH
And the sun is a sluggish lampG
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On the edge of the rolling plainsI
Where the coarse cane grasses swellJ
Lush with the tropic rainsI
In the noontide's drowsy spellJ
Slowly the buffalo grazes throughK
Where the brolgas dance and the jabiruK
Stands like a sentinelL
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All that the world can knowB
Of the wild and the weird is hereK
Where the black men come and goB
With their boomerang and spearK
And the wild duck darken the evening skyM
As they fly to their nests in the reed beds highM
When the tropic night is nearK

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