Over The Range Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDEFEFFDBD GHGHIDID JKJKLDLD| Little bush maiden wondering eyed | A |
| Playing alone in the creek bed dry | B |
| In the small green flat on every side | A |
| Walled in by the Moonbi ranges high | B |
| Tell me the tale of your lonely life | C |
| 'Mid the great grey forests that know no change | D |
| I never have left my home she said | E |
| I have never been over the Moonbi Range | D |
| Father and mother are long since dead | E |
| And I live with granny in yon wee place | F |
| Where are your father and mother I said | E |
| She puzzled awhile with thoughtful face | F |
| Then a light came into the shy brown face | F |
| And she smiled for she thought the question strange | D |
| On a thing so certain When people die | B |
| They go to the country over the range | D |
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| And what is this country like my lass | G |
| There are blossoming trees and pretty flowers | H |
| And shining creeks where the golden grass | G |
| Is fresh and sweet from the summer showers | H |
| They never need work nor want nor weep | I |
| No troubles can come their hearts to estrange | D |
| Some summer night I shall fall asleep | I |
| And wake in the country over the range | D |
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| Child you are wise in your simple trust | J |
| For the wisest man knows no more than you | K |
| Ashes to ashes and dust to dust | J |
| Our views by a range are bounded too | K |
| But we know that God hath this gift in store | L |
| That when we come to the final change | D |
| We shall meet with our loved ones gone before | L |
| To the beautiful country over the range | D |
Banjo Paterson
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