By The Grey Gulf-water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEBEBFGFGHBHB IBIB DBDBJBJBKBKB| Far to the Northward there lies a land | A |
| A wonderful land that the winds blow over | B |
| And none may fathom or understand | A |
| The charm it holds for the restless rover | B |
| A great grey chaos a land half made | C |
| Where endless space is and no life stirreth | D |
| There the soul of a man will recoil afraid | C |
| From the sphinx like visage that Nature weareth | D |
| But old Dame Nature though scornful craves | E |
| Her dole of death and her share of slaughter | B |
| Many indeed are the nameless graves | E |
| Where her victims sleep by the Grey Gulf water | B |
| Slowly and slowly those grey streams glide | F |
| Drifting along with a languid motion | G |
| Lapping the reed beds on either side | F |
| Wending their way to the North Ocean | G |
| Grey are the plains where the emus pass | H |
| Silent and slow with their dead demeanour | B |
| Over the dead man's graves the grass | H |
| Maybe is waving a trifle greener | B |
| Down in the world where men toil and spin | I |
| Dame Nature smiles as man's hand has taught her | B |
| Only the dead men her smiles can win | I |
| In the great lone land by the Grey Gulf water | B |
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| For the strength of man is an insect's strength | D |
| In the face of that mighty plain and river | B |
| And the life of a man is a moment's length | D |
| To the life of the stream that will run for ever | B |
| And so it comes that they take no part | J |
| In small world worries each hardy rover | B |
| Rides like a paladin light of heart | J |
| With the plains around and the blue sky over | B |
| And up in the heavens the brown lark sings | K |
| The songs the strange wild land has taught her | B |
| Full of thanksgiving her sweet song rings | K |
| And I wish I were back by the Grey Gulf water | B |
Banjo Paterson
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