Old Man Platypus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EBEEB FBFFB GHGGH| Far 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
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